>I believe that the amandapass format has changed, to include the
>username (backup was the default one, right ?) but I haven't been
>able to find anything that documented that change.
This is in the 2.4.2 "man amanda":
For Samba access, Amanda needs a file on the Samba server
(which may or may not also be the tape server) named
/etc/amandapass with share names, (clear text) passwords and
(optional) domain names, in that order, one per line, whi-
tespace separated. By default, the user used to connect to
the PC is the same for all PC's and is compiled into Amanda.
It may be changed on a host by host basis by listing it
first in the password field followed by a percent sign and
then the password. For instance:
//some-pc/home normalpw
//another-pc/disk otheruser%otherpw
This is in docs/SAMBA for that release:
Amanda client software, and the patched samba is installed onto a host
'pcserver'. A share to be backed up is called 'backupc' on host
'thepc'. The share will be accessed with the user 'bozo' and
password 'f00bar'.
...
And in /etc/amandapass on the machine 'pcserver', this line must be
present :
//thepc/backupc bozo%f00bar
I don't know if this will fix your particular problem, but it at least
describes the alternate user name syntax.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
