On the 2000 box, be certain that the user that smbclient uses to access
the share has full-control over the files within that share. In order to
avoid this problem, I us ntbackup to create an archive of all the files
that I want backed-up and then only allow access to the user that
amanda/smbclient uses to get to that file. And, I give that user
full-control. If possible, it's best to create a separate partition 
formated NTFS so you can control access.

I do this on 75 2000 boxes without problems. I have an old 95 box that
used to display the same error that you listed, but when I set its share
to full-control, the error  stopped and amanda worked just fine. I read
someplace once (a long time ago) that the user that smbclient uses to
access the shares has to have write/change ability in order to do
incrementals.

Maybe someone else (more familiar with this) can go into this more. Try
the samba list too.

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:03, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Richard, 
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I checked and found that the Win98 client's
> share was set to read only and the "backup" account on the Win2k client
> was in the "backup operators" group.  I changed the Win98 share to full
> access and changed the Win2k "backup" account to the "administrators"
> group.  Unfortunately there was no change in the results.  I still have
> the same logs and report.  :(
> 
> Any other ideas?  :)
> 
> Jeff
> 
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