Topic: FTP and backup issues

[Korp]

I have a few questions, and since I'm fairly new to the linux world, I thought someone might be able to help me out.

In my current setup, I'm mounting a network share from a Windows2k file server into user home folders, ie ..files/users/joeblow/ftp. I have the entries in my rc.local file, just a few "mount -t smbfs -o etc etc" as per a question and answer I found here. Is there a way to set up one mount, ie /mnt/ftp and make links to that in each user's home directory?

I only want users to be able to access their home directory and below, but by default they can get all the way up and all around wherever they want, except into other user's folders. I don't want people poking around inside my ibays if I can help it. Is there a way to do this?

When I try to do a backup, I give up after about a gig of data being backed up to a workstation. I suspect that it's backing up the data from the file server, as it doesn't know that the data isn't really on the machine. Is there a way to either stop it from backing this data up OR a better way of setting up my mounting or links so that it doesn't try to?

Any help is appreciated, as I hate going without backups and I hate leaving security holes. Plus it would be nice to learn best practices in this kind of environment. Thanks!
-Kris

[Jon Blakely]

Kris,

If you are running 5.5 then try this

http://www.pagefault.org/e-smith/contrib/index.html#proftpd

Jon

[Bill Talcott]

http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/backup.php tells how to exclude certain directories from the backup.

[Korpo]

Thanks much, the FTP change was a breeze. I'm having trouble with the backup fix, but I think I might just need to work on it some more.
-Kris