On Monday 21 April 2008 06:50:25 Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> > I've got everything setup on the linux box, such that amcheck returns
> > no errors, but it can't connect to the Windows machine, which is
> > listed in .amandahosts
>
> .amandahosts is the file that allows other computers to connect to the
> machine where this file resists. If you have the windows amanda client
> installed, you have to setup this file on the windows machine. If you
> use smbclient then .amandahosts only need to have a entry for the Linux
> machine that will get the data from the client. In your case, I guess,
> the server itself does this job.

Thanks. The windows client has a file C:\cygwin\var\lib\amanda\amandahosts 
(no leading dot), which contains the following lines

192.168.1.12    amanda
192.168.1.12    root

Does this look correct?

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