On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:30:23AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote:
> I'm a first-time amanda user, trying to backup a linux machine and a few 
> windows shares. I went through the tutorial at 
> amanda.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html, modifying things to fit my 
> setup. The linux machine seems to be ok, but I'm getting some errors 
> with the SMB share.
> 
> The windows machine in question is lens, and the backup server is 
> penguin2. On penguin2, I have a disklist entry like this:
> 
> penguin2.genartsi.com   //lens/c        comp-user-tar
> 
> When I run amcheck, I get the following errors:
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: penguin2.genartsi.com: [samba access error: //lens/c: Error 
> connecting to 192.168.0.43 (Permission denied): Connection to lens 
> failed: returned 1]
> ERROR: penguin2.genartsi.com: [can not read/write /etc/amandates: 
> Permission denied]
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.136 seconds, 2 problems found
> 
> Looking in selfcheck.debug, I see that it's running smbclient like this:
> smbclient \\lens\c -U amanda -E -c quit
> 
> When I run the same command manually, it prompts for a password, and 
> when I enter that it connects fine. But I don't see how amanda is giving 
> this password to smbclient (since it obviously can't prompt for it). 
> Maybe that's the problem?

Is there an "administrator" account with the name "amanda" on lens?
Assuming yes, you need an "amandapass" file in /etc listing the user
and password.  Format is:

        //pc_name/share_name  user_name%password

As this is in clear text, make it readable only by your linux amanda user.

> 
> As for the second problem, I don't see anything in the .debug files that 
> gives me a clue. The permissions for /etc/amandates look like this:
> -rw-r-----  1 amandabackup disk 0 Jul 10 17:20 /etc/amandates
> 

My pre-built amanda server does use 'amandabackup' and 'disk' as the
amanda user and group.  Make sure your's does too and not something
like amanda/wheel or some other combo.  My amandates file's permissions
are 664, not 640.  If the owner is correct, maybe amanda expects to
write to the file via group, not owner permissions.

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