Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto:
> I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines
> and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
> The server has the bacula 5.0.1 package installed, while on the Windows
> XP machine I have bacula-win32-5.0.3.exe installed.
>
> After installing bacula on the XP machine, I copied the data from the
> XP-fd.conf file to the Ubuntu machine bacula-director.conf file.
> Next I start BAT on the XP machine, after a short delay, the status bar
> says "connected to director', but then it tries to connect again and
> after a much longer delay a dialog pops up saying "bat aborting due to
> error in console/console.cpp:155 - Failed to connect to director for
> populateLists."
> I have searched thew GMANE list for the error, but did not have any luck
> at all.
>
> As far as I can tell the Ubuntu server is working well enough, though I
> have concentrated more on the Windows machines, which are the ones I
> really want to back up.
>
> As I am very new to bacula, I'm sure I am missing something, but have no
> clue what or where to look.
>
> Any hints or pointers are most welcome.
>
> TIA
>

The Windows installer asks for the director name but doesn't set the 
password correctly. Copy the password from XP-fd.conf to the bacula-dir.conf

HTH

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