Samba server is a different box than Backuppc.
So, I can ping the backuppc server from the server I need backed up and visa versa.
File and Print sharing is enabled on the Windows server needing to be backed up.
What’s confusing me is I can look at the configuration of an existing Windows server and don’t
see ANY of the details many of the articles I’m looking at are telling me.
For instance:
No backuppc user is created.
Volume Shadow Copy service isn’t running
No LMHOSTS file in the Windows directory
Yet, this server backs up on a daily basis.
The BackupPC server is currently backing up 6 Linux boxes, and 6 Windows boxes.
The Samba server is functioning as is.
The trouble I’m having is determining what fraction of the steps I need to simply add 1 Windows
Server to the existing configuration.
All BackupPC configurations on the new server are identical to existing serrvers.
Just get the no ping (no ping response) when starting a backup.
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [
mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 5:22 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Cc: Holger Parplies
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to read 4 bytes
> I'll take a look in the morning.
> Correct: IP static.
> Windows Firewall tried off with no change.
> Added the host IP to the hosts.allow
> **Haven't found anything indicating I tweak the SAMBA server....?
You aren't actually using the samba _server_. You are using the windows file share service and the linux samba client, smbclient (or
smbtar which is basically the same). There is really only one quirk
that connects them and it is rare for it to cause a problem - and that is that smbclient does read the smb.conf config file that you might have configured with some custom values if you have a samba server running on the same machine as backuppc.
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Les Mikesell
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