DO THE SAMBA
Clonezilla supports a number of networked backup and restore options—the one most likely to be relevant to you is Samba. That’s the crazily named opensource implementation of the Windows networking protocol. The option pops up after you pick the type of backup/restore mode to use, and at the Image Directory point. Choose “samba_server,” then the next few steps require you to know the IP address of the target system, plus have a Windows username and password for it. We also suggest creating a public/guestaccessible folder to save the images to. You still need the username and password for the main account, or create a new user for the backup task.
If you don’t know the IP address, assuming you can access the target networked machine, type “ipconfig” in a command prompt, then press Enter—IPv4 is the address you need. Alternatively, use a tool such as Fing on an Android phone to scan your network and return the IP address of the PC.
After selecting “samba_server,” choose “DHCP,” as that should be how your network is configured to hand out IP addresses. It runs a scan, then asks for the IP address or FQDN of the server— you need the IP address of the target PC. Ignore the “Domain” request. Replace “administrator” with the username, replace “/images” with the shared folder name—“/public,” for example. When it asks for the Samba version, the default 1.0 is fine. Select “Auto use system default” for security. At this point, it asks for the password so it can try to log in.
If you get login errors, check you typed the password correctly (it’s casesensitive). Also check permissions on the Windows share, and that it is accessible by the user account—one way to check is to right-click the shared folder, then select “Properties > Sharing > Share,” and check the permissions.