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 at rose ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs harriet:"EA Games D" /mnt/win Password: [tim at 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. -- 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