Hi, Dave,

on Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 at 16:51 you wrote to amanda-users:

DS> Along with several Linux boxes, I have one Windows NT 4 server which
DS> I'm using amanda to back up using tar over samba.

[..]

DS> The failed/strange dump reports tend to be extremely long, but here's
DS> one of the shorter ones as an example:

DS> /-- peterbilt  //server/f$ lev 1 STRANGE
DS> sendbackup: start [peterbilt://server/f$ level 1]
DS> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient
DS> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/bin/smbclient -f... -
DS> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
DS> sendbackup: info end
DS> | added interface ip=192.168.23.31 bcast=192.168.23.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
DS> |                 directory \LM600\
DS> ? Expected SMBtrans2 response, got command 0x2d
DS> ? ERRDOS - ERRbadfid opening remote file \LM600\C5clax.dll (\LM600\)
DS> ? ERRDOS - ERRbadfid opening remote file \LM600\C5dosx.dll (\LM600\)

This sounds somewhat familiar to me.

I have to say first that I don't have the solution, but maybe we can
add another piece to the whole picture ...

Please let me know, what Samba-release you use.
I bet it is > 2.2.x

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at