The error I see is:
"Host is down or invalid password"
Essentially my guess is that Amanda via smbclient attempts to use a
local wins server to resolve the Netbios name which didn't work because
I didn't have a wins server configured. Hence, rather than wait for the
broadcast to function (it can take up to 45 seconds on my systems to do
so) it just decides the host is down. When running on broadcast, a
packet trace will show at least one negative smb response before manages
to resolve the machine I'm backing up.
> Huh? How can Amanda fail and smbclient work when Amanda is doing nothing
> more than call smbclient?
See above.
DSL
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