On 1/14/2017 3:32 PM, TE Dukes wrote: > Been working on this for a couple days and I am stuck! > > Followed the CentOS WIKI on BackupPC to the letter. It may be outdated, not > sure. I also looked at the tutorial on HowToForge. > > I'm trying to get a windows client to backup via smb. > > I created the user 'backuppc' on the windows client with admin priviledges. > I can map the drive/share from my CentOS Samba server using 'backuppc' > credentials. I use rsyncd from cygwin on my windows targets. > full backup started for directory / > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root hp8200 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender > --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times > --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / it appears you've got backuppc configured to use rsync-over-ssh, not SMB. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz