RE: bygwin amanda client behind firewall.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT 
> amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 3:29 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: bygwin amanda client behind firewall.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:10:34PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> >
> > Well I am getting a little closer.
> >
> > My cygwin client is a Window2003 server.
> >
> > When I do a amcheck from the amanda server to the cygwin client behind
> the
> > firewall I now get the following in the events log on the cygwin client.
> >
> > "....The following information is part of the event: inetd: PID 2280:
> > amanda: can't set uid 18: Permission denied.....
> >
> > "...The following information is part of the event: inetd: PID 2764:
> > /local/Amanda/amanda-2.4.5p1/libexec/amandad: exit status 0x100."
> >
> > So now I am at least getting to the inetd service.
> ...
> >
> > 6) This is my inetd.conf amanda entry.
> >
> > amanda  dgram        udp  wait  SYSTEM  /local/Amanda/amanda-
> 2.4.5p1/libexec/amandadamandad
> 
> > Do you see anything wrong.
> >
> 
> 
> Is the amanda-user SYSTEM (uid = 18).
[McGraw, Robert P.] 
In my /etc/passwd I have the following:

        SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:/home/root:

> 
> I forget how it needs to be on cygwin clients,
> but on unix amandad would be started as the amanda-user,
> not as "root".
[McGraw, Robert P.] 
Per the amanda docs for cygwin clients, it is the SYSTEM account that it
runs under.
> 
> Probably just a fluke of mailers, but in my mailreader the
> two "amandad's" are run together with no space as in:
> 
>   .../libexec/amandadamandad
[McGraw, Robert P.] 
Yeah I saw this right after I sent it out.  It is "amandad      amandad" I
was cut and pasting to get it into the email and must have lost the tab.
> 
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[McGraw, Robert P.] 
I have checked, and rechecked for spelling etc. I have also compared my
WinXP cygwin client, which works with the Win2003 client. 

I have send email to the cygwin news group asking for help.

Thanks

Robert
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