Both these work as addresses in Konqueror.
I even created a folder under mnt called nas……..mnt/nas/ but I don’t know how to make that mean anything to any program – its just an empty folder![/quote]
Ok, I assume that you are running KDE. rsync doesn’t know anything about KDEs kio-slaves, which means that smb:// will not work.

Instead, you will have to mount the network share in the file-system; in /mnt/nas for example, as you suggested. You will need to install smbfs by running “sudo apt-get install smbfs”, but without the quotes.

Then you should be able to mount the file-system by running something like this: “sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=XX,mode=755,uid=YY //192.168.2.2/jon/ /mnt/nas”

Replace XX with the username on the NAS, and YY with the uid you get when you run “id” on the command-line.

Good luck.

Both these work as addresses in Konqueror.
I even created a folder under mnt called nas……..mnt/nas/ but I don’t know how to make that mean anything to any program – its just an empty folder!

Another way I have used is to create a script containing of the rsync command and just put it in a convenient location, such as the desktop. Then the parents can just click the icon to have it backup the files automatically.

Anyway, thanks for your comment!