On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:24, jessica blackburn wrote:
>I think im using the amanda win32 because i could get samba to see
> the files of the MS box but not back them up. so, i moved on the
> try the win32.  do i need to use samba and win32 together?  or just
> one over the other?  and if so which is better?

They would be two seperate programs Jessica.  Having samba lets you 
look at the files, move or copy them to/from your machine & generally 
gives the human an eye into things.  But the win32 client should be 
able to run regardless of the samba connection status.

>On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:19, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>> jessica blackburn said:
>> > hello again!
>> >
>> > i got the samba working so i can talk with the ms box.  now i'm
>> > trying
>> > to get the amanda win32 working to try and backup the system.  i
>> > am connecting to the MS box but i am getting an error that i
>> > can't seem to
>> > figure out when i'm running amcheck.
>> >
>> >
>> > -bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
>> > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>> > -----------------------------
>> > Holding disk /var/tmp: 28918452 KB disk space available, that's
>> > plenty
>> > amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20031205 label DailySet103 (exact
>> > label match)
>> > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>> > Tape DailySet103 label ok
>> > Server check took 0.320 seconds
>> >
>> > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>> > --------------------------------
>> > ERROR: NAK hccdevelop03: execute access to
>> > "/usr/amanda/libexec/selfcheck" denied
>> > Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.135 seconds, 1 problem found
>>
>> This looks an awful lot like an amanda-win32-client error. Are you
>> sure you're actually using samba in your disklist? It should look
>> like
>>
>> machine_with_smbclient //hccdevelop03/c$ user-tar
>>
>> if it looks like
>>
>> hccdevelop03 /mnt_c user-tar
>>
>> you're still using win32 client

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