On Thu, 17 May 2012 00:11:23 -0500
David Clements <david.clements AT tds DOT net> wrote:

> I have a laptop running Win XP Professional, after a normal startup
> or a reboot the Bacula client is started and runs under the SYSTEM
> user.
> 
> If  I check the status of the Win client from bconsole on the Linux 
> server I get:
> 
> 16-May 23:34 claudius-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Unable to
> authenticate with File daemon at "192.168.100.4:9102". Possible
> causes: Passwords or names not the same or
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or
> FD networking messed up (restart daemon).
> Please see 
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION003760000000000000000
>  
> for help.
> 
> I restart the client under SYSTEM there is no change, but if I
> restart the client under my user (an administrator) the status check
> works and backups run ok.
> 
> No config files files are changed and I have carefully checked that 
> duplicate config files do not exist for running under the 2 different
> users
> 
> I have checked various Win sites without success, does anyone have
> any ideas?

I've no problems backing up Win XP Pro (SP3) using 32-bit client v5.0.3
and 5.0.2 on the server.

Hence, a couple of questions:

Are you running 32-bit OS?

Are you sure there's no some sort of permission problem?
I mean, what if the SYSTEM account cannot read the FD configuration
file or access some other resource?

I would try to run bacula-fd in debug mode under the local system
account. That could be achieved using `psexec -s -i ...` (see [1]).
For more on Bacula Win32 client debugging read [2].

1. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553
2. http://adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2011-05/msg00045.html

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