When I had a similar problem, it turned out that to be a mismatch in the 
client name. The director thought it was client-fd, while the fd thought 
it was just client. Took me a week to spot that ;-)

terryc wrote:
> And it is not entered in the honstname-fd.conf file.
>
> I am having a brain fart atm and can not remember where I entered/how I 
> told the windows client FD what password it uses to talk to the 
> bacula-director.
>
> In all my working windows client hostname-fd.conf files the password 
> line is;
>
> Password = @client-password@
>
> and they all work and have been doing so for months. Well apart from the 
> one that tinkled it's hard disk, which started this build and 
> configuration of the problem child.
>
> The FAQ is not helpful. both host with DIR & SD  pings the client and 
> the client can ping the DIR/SD host. the client also mounts filesystems 
> off the DIR/SD host okay, so I am discounting any network problems.
>
> Job error messages say unable to authenticate and mention passwords 
> (hence this message) or names not the same (dirty glasses error?) or 
> concurrent jobs which isn't the problem (only run one at a time.
>
> cluebies.
>
> T.I.A.
>
>   


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