I'll post here a little howto as soon as I find time. Don't hesitate to remind 
me of that if I forget. (one week could be a correct timeout for me I think if 
I have not too any problems...)


On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:01:18 -0500
Tony Shadwick <tshadwick AT stgroupllc DOT com> wrote:

> Care to share what you went through?  I remember there's an exe you have to
> run to turn any program into a service (anyserv.exe?) as I've had to do it
> for a perl script before.
> 
> Would be nice to get it all under the same backup system.
> 
> On 9/12/02 2:35 AM, "JC Simonetti" <simonetti AT echo DOT fr> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
> > Samuel Nicolary <sam AT nicolary DOT org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hello gang,
> >>> 
> >>> A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
> >>> without having to deal with samba.  Someone had responded with the win32
> >>> Amanda client on sourceforge.  I have looked it up and it seems like
> >>> it'll do what I want.  However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months.  Is
> >>> anyone currently using this with Amanda 2.4.3.b4?
> >> 
> >> I downloaded this package but have been unable to get it to work - anyone
> >> using it successfully?
> > 
> > 
> > Well... I was a bit tricky but I managed to make this work with Amanda 
> > 2.4.3b2
> > and W2K clients (not NT4). The major problems in fact were to transform this
> > slight piece of code into a W2K Service (to make it work even if you have 
> > not
> > an Administrator account always opened) (quite a bit tricky to to find
> > information at Microsoft's). Another problem was due to the Windows flag
> > "archive" that seems to be read by Amanda exactly like the Unix "executable"
> > flag.
> > Now I am backuping some W2K servers, in production. Everything goes well :)
> > 
> > 
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