Re: off-topic: scheduled backup to external hard drive

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> -- if you want to network 9x and NT boxes together, you need to be aware of one
> quirk: the 9x box (and, for that matter, any other NT box) can logon to an NT
> box without further ado as long as it presents valid credentials (a valid
> Username/Password combo) for the target NT box; but 9x boxes won't allow other
> boxes to log on to 9x unless the NT user has the *same* Username and Password
> as the current user of the 9x box. In other words, by some wierd way of
> thinking, 9x won't let you log in unless it's "really" you, the current user,
> who has the "right" to log in. Utterly moronic, but there it is.
Aha! So that's what was happening on the rare occasions when I tried to
get files from one of the 98 boxes while working at the XP one.
> !NOBODY! on a LAN should be allowed to be secretive --
> it's plain dangerous,
Secretive from the Admin, sure. But sometimes user A needs to keep
things secret from users B and C. Or to let them SEE files but not
change them. (And 9x is absolutely lousy at doing this. I'm safe,
because no one else uses my PCs; but I should have definitely upgraded
to 2k by now--or Linux--if anyone else had access to them.)
> -- learn how to use NET.EXE. It's a very powerful utility, especially the NET
> USE command. XySearch is full of examples of NET USE commands, and of UNC
> commands.

Yes, indeed. And thanks for yet another lesson in how to do so.

Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx