On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> For the last couple of days I am unsuccessfully trying to backup a window
> machine(Win 2000) with Samba server(Solaris 9).
> I installed Samba on the Solaris server and successfully run and tested
> smbclient.
> Yet, I am unable to backup the 'Shared folder' on the window box.
> When running amcheck Amanda sends me the following error message:
> 
>   NOTE: info dir /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/hostname.com: does not
> exist
>   NOTE: index dir /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/index/hostname.com: does not
> exist

ignore these, they will exist when the first of hostname.com backup is done.


>   Server check took 0.190 seconds
> 
>   Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>   --------------------------------
>   WARNING: hostname.com: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>   Client check: 1 host checked in 30.031 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> Additionally, I updated the file: /etc/amandapass with the following line:
>                                  //Window-computer-name/share-folder-name
> username%password
> I created a shared folder on the Window machine.
> smbd and nmbd deamons are running!
> 

Can you access the shares by hand with smbtar/smbclient?

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