Ryan,

Thanks for the info.  Tried what you suggested and here is what happened.

smbclient -L laptop1 -U dwilliams
Enter dwilliams's password:
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0

mount -t cifs //192.168.15.50/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=dwilliams
Password:
mount error(13): Permission denied

dwilliams is setup as an admin user on laptop1.

smbfs did not work and I got the following message: "smbfs is deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs"

Perhaps this is a windows 7 security issue, not sure.  I know several years ago I was using SMB to backup an XP machine and didn't have these issues.
I'm not familiar with rsync so would have to look into that.

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On 2/15/2011 9:29 AM, Ryan Blake wrote:

David,

 

Being a "mobile warrior," I believe you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for Windows) instead of smb.  You also need to keep in mind that your system will need to transfer all files across the pipe to check their checksum.  If you are connected via wireless when you are home, I would not suggest it, unless your drive is practically unused.

 

With that said, if you still would prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will want to connect to the c$ share).  If you can connect successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I would suggest running the following command on your linux box:

 

smbclient -L ComputerName -U Administrator*

 

If the system comes back with your open network shares, then good.  If it does not, then something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error message it gives back.  If it does work, you can try one last thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to ensure that works.

 

1. Create a folder in /mnt using mkdir /mnt/test

2. Run this command: mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator*

3. If that does not work, exchange cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator*

 

You should be able to cd to /mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of your C: on your laptop.  If that works, it *should* work assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs.

 

P.S. Once you test mounting, you'll probably want to unmount with umount /mnt/test

 

* [Or whatever username you want to use to connect]

 

~Ryan

From: David Williams

Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM

To: General list for user discussion,questions and support

Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time

On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote:

However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option 
would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated 
with bind [named] (assuming you are using these).

That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which
provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when
you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it
gets added to the local DNS domain automatically.

Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use "hostname.local" as your
name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of
the box. On Windows it's easy to install.

Regards,
Tyler

All,

I have now gotten to the point whereby the backup is at least starting.  It is also stopping very quickly with the following errors:

full backup started for share \\laptop1
Xfer PIDs are now 28877,28876
Exec failed for 
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share \\laptop1)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share \\laptop1)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

I suspect that I don't have some of the smb parameters setup correctly.  I have done the following:

XferMethod = smb
SmbShareName = \\laptop1  (have also tried C$)
SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd have both been set.
BackupFilesOnly = \users\dwilliams

How can I troubleshoot this issue further?  Are there any command line commands that I can use to ensure I can connect to laptop1 via smb?  I have Windows7 64-bit on the laptop.

Any additional help will be much appreciated.

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