On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines, In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions, if that is relevant here.
I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine. It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders, but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients.
To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D" on a machine running Windows XP Pro. I can access it through Samba:
m@rose ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs harriet:"EA Games D" /mnt/win Password: [tim@rose ~]$ ls /mnt/win The Sims 2
But I do not seem able to back it up with BackupPC . In my BackupPC conf file for harriet I have under Smb Settings "EA Games D"
But when I run a backup (incremental or full) I get the error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG 2009-10-17 14:43:43 Got fatal error during xfer (tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
Well it does not seem to be a CentOS or Windows firewall issue since you can mount the share via command line.
Are you specifying a your username (tim) and windows password in the pc configuration in BackupPC? You probably would be getting a different error message if those were not entered or were wrong, but just to cover the bases because I have DOH moments and forget such things.
The other option is to specify the IP address as "ClientNameAlias" if the windows system has a static IP. If the IP address is not statically mapped you may have look at using the DHCP settings and specify that the host is a DHCP host.
Hope some of this may help, I just setup BackupPC and had two windows boxes (Windows 2000) that I wanted to backup with it and had no issues.
Regards, Paul Berger
-- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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