On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >I'm not having any luck on my PC shares. ...
>
> What does one of the disklist entries look like?
>
> If you comment out everything else but one PC entry in disklist and
> run "amcheck", does /tmp/amanda/selfcheck*debug or amandad*debug on the
> (Unix/Samba) client get updated? If so, what is in them?
If I just have the Unix shares entered, everything works fine.
It's the NT and Win95/Win2K shares that were timing out.
I read the FAQ over and over on the section that deals with selfcheck
timing out. I went to the Faq-O-Matic and read the info there too.
I'm pretty sure I've solved it.
The Faq-O-Matic talked about having amandad in inetd.conf. The server I'm
using doesn't back up itself, just other machines so I've compiled using
the no server option, which doesn't build amandad (right?)
A few tests showed comments in the messages file about amandad not
found. Bingo.
So I did a make clean and make deinstall on the port, edited the
Makefile, make and make install, added the line to inetd.con for amandad
(the services file already had 3 entries)... ran amcheck and voila! It
actually told me the password on one of the NT boxes was wrong and
/etc/amandates needed to be created.
I corrected the password, touched the file, re-ran amcheck and no errors.
I'm pretty certain when I go to work tomorrow and check amstatus it's
going to be reporting a backup in progress and all is well.
It took about 2 days of tinkering to figure that out. ;-) I figured when
hardly anyone responded the answer must be in the FAQ somewhere.
Thanks for the response.
-Gerry
