Hi all,
I am getting “WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck
request timed out. Host down?” when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server
using Samba and Amanda.
I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all
running Linux and the Amanda Client. These hosts all backup fine. I have now
tried adding a Windows 2000 server to the disklist, using the Samba format;
this is my disklist entry:
2kserver //2kserver/d$
comp-root-tar
…and I have added the correct username and
password to /etc/amandapass; I have checked these details with smbclient and I
can successfully map the samba drive from the Amanda server using these details:
//2kserver/d$ amanda Amanda
…but when I run `amcheck backup` I get:
WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host
down?
There is nothing in /tmp/amanda, and amanda definitely
has write permission to this directory. I then tried installing the Win32
client on the Windows 2000 server, and now I get:
“ERROR: NAK 2kserver: execute access to “/usr/amanda/libexec/selfcheck”
denied
I don’t want to run a client on each Windows
server; I would much prefer to use samba and Amanda to ‘pull’ the
files from the server. It looks like Amanda is ignoring the Samba format in
disklist and trying to connect with the Amanda client regardless. There are no
firewalls or other network issues here.
Can anyone help me out – I’m starting to
lose hair over this one!!
Thanks!
John
