2014-08-08 Today, I took another try with the USB disk copying. The remain- ing problem were the character encodings. (It would be so simple: Just don't use non-ASCII characters (or whitespace) in file names.) But as it is the real (bad) world, I need to deal with it. I had copied the Windows-encoded filenames verbatimly onto my Unix machine. Now, rsync didn't wanted to copy them back on the new USB disk. I tried with `--iconv=iso88591,utf-8' but without luck. Now I solved it ... with `emv'! ;-) I opened all paths with Umlauts with emv. On this machine vi is vim, thus I could `:set fileencoding=utf-8' and `:wq'. Afterwards `rsync -rcv ./ /mnt' copied the files as expected. I needed a way to allow a Windows machine to access some shared working directory on my machine. NFS serves it to the Unix machines, now I server it with Samba too. This is a super brief howto: [0] (... although it has an unbelievable long URL). [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How%20to%20Create%20a%20Network%20Share%20Via%20Samba%20Via%20CLI%20(Command- line%20interface/Linux%20Terminal)%20- %20Uncomplicated,%20Simple%20and%20Brief%20Way! http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke