>John Swarbrick wrote:
>>>John Swarbrick wrote:
>>>
>>>>  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
>> 
>> 
>>>The server should be a Unix host running smbclient.  That unix host
>>>then connects to //pchost/share to make the backup.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>>   Thanks for the reply!
>> 
>>   Sorry, I forgot to give the usual rundown of version numbers! The
Amanda
>> server is running Amanda 2.4.4p3-1 on CentOS 4.2 (binary compatable with
>> RedHat Advanced Server). This is the server which has the tape drive and
>> Amanda server. Samba client is 3.0.21-2. All installed from RPM.
>> 
>>   I am trying to 'pull' files from 2kserver, which is Windows 2000.
>
>Yes, indeed. That's what I'm trying to say.
>Amanda backups with samba go through an Unix agent (which can be the 
>Amanda server itself).  So you have 3 machines, and the middle one needs 
>to run smbclient (on a unix machine).
>
>     Amandaserver    ==>    Unix-running-smbclient  ==>    WindowsPC
>
>To make a backup of a share on WindowsPC you need this disklist entry:
>
>     Unix-running-smbclient    //WindowsPC/share   comp-user-tar
>
>You had instead:
>
>     WindowsPC      //WindowsPC/share     comp-user-tar        # WRONG!!!
>
>



Hurrah!! Now it works! Thanks a lot Paul!

Regards,

John