A few things I would check:

*) Since you area already part of a domain, your amandapass does not require 
the third field that specifies the workgroup.

*) Your disklist specifies nocomp-user-gnutar as the backup method.  What is 
listed in there?

*) check out the errors logs in /tmp/amanda.  It might help highlight a few 
issues with the backup errors.

*) The packages that you are using are fairly old.  You might want to try 
upgrading them as the updated package might contain fixes relevant to your 
problem.


I am able to successfully backup windows2000 systems using amanda on a redhat 
box, so I do know that this works.  It has nothing to do with your linux box 
needing to be a PDC. So long as your linux box is a member of the domain, you 
should be okay.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:34 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: please, help with samba/windows setup
> 
> 
> Hi there ! 
>  
>         I am having trouble to setup amanda to backup shares from a 
> Windows 2000 server. I am not sure this is possible, (I suspect is 
> not), so I am writing to get a confirmation that this is impossible 
> and ask for suggestions to backup the windows 2000 shares. 
>  
>         The PDC is a windows 2000 machine. it's NetBIOS name is 
> kgbserver. The shares that I want to backup are named 
> "//kgbserver/Others" and "//kgbserver/Docs". 
>  
>         The amanda server is a RH9.0, with samba configured as 
> security=DOMAIN . The samba NetBIOS name is KGBSERVER2.  
> 
>         This is why I think this could be a problem. The samba 
> server is not the PDC for that domain. It is just a client for that 
> domain. This makes any sense ?
>  
>         In the disklist file I put the following lines for the 
> shares I want to backup: 
>  
> kgbserver2      //kgbserver/Others      nocomp-user-gnutar 
> kgbserver2      //kgbserver/Docs     nocomp-user-gnutar 
>  
>         The file /etc/amandapass was configured with the 
> Administrator and password for the Windows machine: 
>  
> //kgbserver/Others      administrator%ajjj882 KGB 
> //kgbserver/Docs        administrator%ajjj882 KGB 
>  
>  
>         On the amanda server (RH9.0) I can browse the Windows 2000's 
> shares with smbclient, for example: 
>  
> # smbclient -L //kgbserver -U administrator%ajjj882 -W KGB 
> added interface ip=192.168.155.202 bcast=192.168.155.255 
> nmask=255.255.255.0 
> Domain=[KGB] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] 
>  
>         Sharename      Type      Comment 
>         ---------      ----      ------- 
> 
> ...etc... and browsing a specific share: 
>  
> # smbclient  //kgbserver/Others -U administrator%ajjj882 -W KGB 
> added interface ip=192.168.155.202 bcast=192.168.155.255 
> nmask=255.255.255.0 
> Domain=[KGB] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] 
> smb: \> ls 
>   .                                   D        0  Fri Jun 25 
> 14:46:26 2004 
>   ..                                  D        0  Fri Jun 25 
> 14:46:26 2004 
>   ENVELOPES                           D        0  Thu Feb 28 
> 15:02:23 2002 
> 
> ...etc.... 
>  
>      ...and even smbtar work fine: 
>  
> # cd /tmp 
> # smbtar -s kgbserver -u administrator%ajjj882 -x Others -t 
> others.tar 
> # tar -tvf others.tar 
> ...etc... 
>  
>      ...and amcheck works fine too: 
>  
> # /bin/su - amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amcheck -c DialySet1" 
>  
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check 
> -------------------------------- 
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 10.682 seconds, 0 problems found 
>  
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3) 
>  
>  
>         The amdump fail with the following message: 
>  
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: 
>   planner: ERROR Request to kgbserver2 timed out. 
>  
>         .... and from DUMP summary: 
>  
> DUMP SUMMARY: 
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER 
> STATS 
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  
> KB/s 
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- 
> ------------ 
> kgbserver2   -ver/Others   MISSING 
> -------------------------------------- 
> kgbserver2   -erver/Docs   MISSING 
> -------------------------------------- 
>  
>         Is this setup really impossible ? 
>         As last resort, I configured Amanda to backup the mount 
> point "/mnt/kgbserver/Others" and "/mnt/kgbserver/Docs" from the 
> machine kgbserver2. 
> 
>  These mount points are mounted at boot time via /etc/fstab using 
> smbfs. 
>  
>         Is there another better solution ? 
>  
>         I will appreciated any ideas and comments. 
>  
>         thank you gurus in advance, 
>  
> Amanda server: RH9.0, running 2.4.20-30.9. 
> amanda version: 2.4.3-4 (from the rpm package) 
> samba version: 2.2.7a release 8.9.0 (from the rpm package) 
>  
> -- 
> Miguel Angelo Rozsas
> K3M Consultoria
> 19 3232 8886
> 
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