Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

>
> Well, you need several ports opened for smb/cifs-connections, but
> if you can connect from the commandline, this should also work from
> within AMANDA. Go and have a closer look at your debugfiles,
> usually in /tmp/amanda. You should find the command AMANDA
> generates, by "grep smbclient" or similar. Maybe this helps ...
>
> Stefan
>
>
I have run a test amcheck against one of my windoze boxes, generating
the following log (actually in /var/log/amanda):-

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
selfcheck: debug 1 pid 11168 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Oct 10
19:11:52 2005
/usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck: version 2.4.5
selfcheck: time 0.000: checking disk //gandalf/gandalfc
selfcheck: time 0.000: spawning /usr/bin/smbclient in pipeline
selfcheck: argument list: smbclient \\gandalf\gandalfc -U chris -E -W
GANDALF -c quit
selfcheck: time 0.038: samba access error: //gandalf/gandalfc: Error
connecting to 192.168.0.2 (Permission denied): Connection to gandalf
failed: returned 1
selfcheck: time 0.038: pid 11168 finish time Mon Oct 10 19:11:52 2005
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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