On 7/28/2011 10:13 AM, Alain Péan wrote:
>
>>> I tried myself to setup a backup of a windows machine (windows vista 64
>>> bits, and 7 64 bits) using smb, and had an error similar (NT_STATUS...
>>> ), but not identical to you, if I remember correctly. I am using
>>> BackupPC 3.1 from the EPEL repository, and found after some research,
>>> that newer version of samba were not compatible with the smbclient
>>> option '-N'.
>>>
>>> So, I removed the -N option, modifying the line SmbClientFullCmd in the
>>> web interface, and after that, all went OK. See :
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backuppc/+bug/283652
>>>
>>> Your case is perhaps not the same, but if you use backuppc 3.1, you will
>>> certainly face this problem.
>> First make sure that the login/password you are using works to connect
>> to the share from a windows client, then try the same connection from
>> linux using smbclient (which should give you an ftp-like interface). If
>> you can do it from smbclient but the backuppc connection isn't working,
>> then it may be the way the -N option works. I've forgotten what
>> version of samba introduced the change that made it fail.
>>
>
> Hi Les,
>
> Thanks for your advice, but it is indeed what I tried, and it succeded
> with something like :
> # smbclient \\\\client-machine\\F\$ -U administrator
>
> I was able to list the content of the f$ share with ls.
>
> I am using SL6 as BackupPC server, and samba version is 3.5.4.
>
> So removing the '-N' did the trick for me.
I didn't mean to imply that this was the wrong thing to do, just that it
only affects systems with certain versions of samba so it is worth
making sure that the failure is not due to some other issue first.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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