Never mind, I found the solution to the issue - apparently the smbclient has 
changed a bit since Backuppc was written/updated. Here is the link to what 
helped me solve my problem.

http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2008-11/msg00076.html

I was not on this mailing list when that little gem of info was sent around.



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From: "James Beam" <jbeam AT jbnetworks DOT org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 5:08 AM
To: "General list for user discussion,questions and support" 
<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Windows domain auth failure - driving me nuts

> I keep getting domain auth failures when trying smb - here is my .pl file:
>
> $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['users'];
> $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'domain\backuppc';
> $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'password';
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
>
>
> I created a user on the domain called backuppc with sufficient rights to 
> do
> what needs doing.
>
> Here is the error I keep getting:
>
> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\nxtc03\\users -U ptr\\backuppc -E -N -d 
> 1 -c
> tarmode\ full -Tc -
> full backup started for share users
> Xfer PIDs are now 6373,6372
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[PTR] OS=[Windows Server (R) 2008 Enterprise 6001 Service Pack 1]
> Server=[Windows Server (R) 2008 Enterprise 6.0]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[PTR] OS=[Windows Server (R) 2008 Enterprise 6001 Service Pack 1]
> Server=[Windows Server (R) 2008 Enterprise 6.0]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share users)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share users)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the 
> prior
> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>
>
> Now, what is interesting is the \\ in the domain\user part. I did not add
> this - my .pl file is as shown above.
>
> Also, when I try the command as shown above with domain\user it fails - 
> but
> if I strip the rest of the stuff after the -U domain\backuppc part it
> prompts me for a password and connects to the share..
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>
>
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