>-----Original Message-----
>From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:02 PM
>To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host
>
>> With the security set to server I get the error "Failed to join domain:
>> Invalid domain role". If security is set to ADS it asks for a password
and I
>> get "Using short domain name..." and " could not connect to server
>> DC.mydomain" and " The user name or password was not correct".
>
>I believe you need administrator credentials for the initial join of a
>machine to a domain.  After the join, you can log in as a normal user.
>But, if you are doing backups you'll need to be admin or in the backup
>group anyway.

I entered a domain admin-account for the join, the only account(group)
allowed to join computers to the domain.


>>> I'm not sure plain text is ever used.  The choices would be NT LANMAN
style
>>> hashes or whatever they changed to in win2k3.  A samba 3.x version
should be
>>> able to do both. I don't think the kernel cifs module does kerberos or
client
>>> signing, though.
>>
>> Just checked the Windows Default Domain Policy to make sure. The LAN
>Manager
>> Authentication level is set to "Send NTLMv2 response only/Refuse LM&
NTLM".
>> This is another enforced policy from the University IT-department. I
don't
>> know however if this is a problem for BPC and the authentication. Maybe
>> somebody else knows.
>
>This should work with smbclient - not sure about the kernel cifs module.
>  If you aren't able to make smb authentication work, you might try
>cwrsync - I think in the latest versions running rsync under sshd
>actually works.

I'll check tomorrow morning and get back to the list. Workday's almost over
here, and one does get tired of trying this and that to get things going.

I really appreciate the help you all are giving me on this matter; thanks!
-- 
/Sorin

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