To be succinct: your problem is whitespace in the share name.
>
> I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines,
> In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions,
> if that is relevant here.
>
> I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine.
> It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders,
> but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients.
>
> To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D"
> on a machine running Windows XP Pro.
> I can access it through Samba:
> -------------------------------------
> m@rose ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs harriet:"EA Games D" /mnt/win
> Password:
> [tim@rose ~]$ ls /mnt/win
> The Sims 2
> -------------------------------------
> But I do not seem able to back it up with BackupPC .
> In my BackupPC conf file for harriet I have under Smb Settings
> "EA Games D"
>
> But when I run a backup (incremental or full)
> I get the error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG
> 2009-10-17 14:43:43 Got fatal error during xfer (tree connect failed:
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
>
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
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