I've got the Win32 client setup and running in a console window on an NT box 
running NT4.0 SP6a.  It works well.  I've also setup amanda as a service 
according to the instructions.  However, the service does not start.  It hangs 
for a while and then gives an error:

Error 2186:  The service is not responding to the control function.

Now, I went to the MS support site and found the 2186 error.  The solution 
given was to upgrade to the most current SP.  So I checked my machine and it 
had SP6a, but there was a hotfix that wasn't loaded (Q246009), so I loaded it 
and restarted the system.

The service is to run under the user 'amanda' as a local user with 
administrative rights including the right to 'login as a service'.  It's setup 
as a 'Manual' service so it does not try to start at boot, even though that's 
what I would prefer.  The server is a Sun E3000 and has no problem backing up 
the NT box when the client is running in the foreground in a console window or 
command window.

Has anyone had any luck with the Win32 client as a service?

I found the client at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/

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