Thanks for the quick response John. I used that title to get attention, did it work? :-) This has been a real pain to get working, seems like it was fine with 98 and NT, but 2000 has thrown a wrench in the works.
To answer some of your questions: It doesn't happen on all W2K hosts, but when it starts it keeps doing it. I swapped some W2K hosts from a different config and neither worked on each others configs, where the ones on the other config *were* working. I am waiting to upgrade when my new server arrives, so maybe the problem will not follow. I will also try your suggestion about catching the processes in the act, that could prove interesting. I will also up the timeout to see what effect that has. Thanks for the advice! Terri John R. Jackson wrote: > > >I'm getting this on several of my Win2K clients: > > Ummm, how is it you can put "Easy question" and "Win2K" in the same > letter? :-) > > >mordor //bali/personal$ lev 0 FAILED [missing result for //bali/personal$ > >in mordor response] > > > >This hasn't always happened with them. ... > > Does it happen for a given PC some of the time but not others? Or once > it starts happening with a particular host does it keep doing it? > > >This is Amanda 2.4.1p1 ... > > The first thing I'd suggest is upgrading mordor to 2.4.2p2 or later. > Among other things, the logging is much better for tracking problems. > > Whether you do that or not, you need to catch one of the smbclient > commands in action (/tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug) to see what it tried > to do. Building with --with-pid-debug-files makes this much easier, > although you have to clean out /tmp/amanda by hand once in a while > (all of this is better in 2.4.2p2 and later). > > This message comes from planner when it does not get an estimate back > from a client. It could just be that the client is taking a long time > (that's another thing that's better with 2.4.2 -- smbclient is run with > "du" instead of "dir" and is much faster), in which case cranking up > etimeout in amanda.conf might help. > > If more than one machine has Samba installed (i.e. something other > than "mordor"), you might try spreading the load by changing disklist. > Note that those PC's will then look "new" to Amanda and so full dumps > will be required to get started unless you mess around with the database. > > >Terri Eads > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
