Problems with samba smbtar command

From: Larry Griffith <larry_at_cs.wsc.ma.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:24:06 -0500

Dear Managers,

     Due to some changes in our local setup, I now have to back my PC
up to the TLZ06 tape drive on my DEC 3000/600. I'm using Samba v2.0.0
beta 1. As a test I'm backing up my C: drive (on a Win NT v4.0
machine). I'm using the following script (with hhhh replacing the PC
hostname and pppp replacing the password for obvious reasons):

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -vx
mt rewind
if ! echo $PATH | grep samba
then
    export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/samba/bin
fi
smbtar -v -s hhhh -p pppp -X -x 'C$' -l 2 -u root -t /dev/nrmt0h pagefile.sys
set -

    I need to exclude c:\pagefile.sys (NT doesn't like access to this
file, which seems reasonable to me). My administrative account on NT
is called root.

    Two questions:

i) smbtar just backs up the top level directory and quits (I've
verified that these files are indeed written to my tape). How do I
get it to descend into my folders?

ii) Is there any way of getting the password out of the script? This
is clearly a security abomination, but eventually this script will
have to run without human supervision.

                                                Larry

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