On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at 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 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. 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >