I will give that a try tomorrow (the ntbackup approach). Sounds like a great idea.
I double checked the "backup" account on the Win2k box. It is in the administrators group, so I am fairly certain is has full control. I failed to mention in my last reply that the drive on this one is NTFS, not FAT. Your ntbackup approach sounds perfect as I believe that would preserve all the permissions. I am not sure how the smbclient approach handles permissions, etc. I will try the backup again tomorrow with a subdirectory instead of the entire disk. If I can get that to work, I will use your ntbackup idea. I also checked the Win95 box again and I have the share set to full-control. I'm not sure what is going on there. Of course this drive is FAT32. I am completely baffled. If I mount the shares on zeus, I have no problems. I can move around and copy files and everything seems fine. I didn't think of checking the samba lists...I will take a peek over there tomorrow, too...it's been a long day. Thanks again for your help! Jeff On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:25, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote: > On the 2000 box, be certain that the user that smbclient uses to access > the share has full-control over the files within that share. In order to > avoid this problem, I us ntbackup to create an archive of all the files > that I want backed-up and then only allow access to the user that > amanda/smbclient uses to get to that file. And, I give that user > full-control. If possible, it's best to create a separate partition > formated NTFS so you can control access. > > I do this on 75 2000 boxes without problems. I have an old 95 box that > used to display the same error that you listed, but when I set its share > to full-control, the error stopped and amanda worked just fine. I read > someplace once (a long time ago) that the user that smbclient uses to > access the shares has to have write/change ability in order to do > incrementals. > > Maybe someone else (more familiar with this) can go into this more. Try > the samba list too. > -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jeffery Smith - Systems Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Sky Computers, Inc. (www.skycomputers.com) | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
