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Re: Problems backing up Windows servers with SAMBA: got 'badly formatted response'

2003-03-07 08:50:17
Subject: Re: Problems backing up Windows servers with SAMBA: got 'badly formatted response'
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Jose Vicente Nunez Z <josevnz AT newbreak DOT com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:27:01 +0100
Jose Vicente Nunez Z wrote:

smbclient //10.1.20.26/MyDocuments -WMYDOMAIN -A auth -N -TXc backup.tar
'My Music' 'My Pictures' 'Personal' 'Messenger Service Received Files'
'./downloads'

(this command works just fine)

It works fine on IP nr 10.1.20.26...

...
nmask=255.255.255.0: session request to 10.1.20.44 failed (Called name
not present): session request to 10 failed (Called name not present):

But on 10.1.20.44 there seems to be some complication. I guess this is the cause of the "badly formatted response" (I'm not 100% sure, but it is strange!)

I'm not a samba expert, but I guess you should try to find out what's the cause of this message.


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