I am setting up Amanda to back up a heterogenous Linux/Win32 network including several XP Home clients.
It looks like Microsoft has completely stripped the concept of security out of Windows shares on XP Home. You can share something, but you cannot set a password or, so far as I can tell, in any way secure the share you've created. It would appear the Win32 Amanda clients are the only secure option for backing up XP Home clients (if you've settled on Amanda for backing up computers). I am downloading the Win32 Amanda clients now for the purposes of installing and using them. I'll report back here on how successful this operation is. I think the "smbclient" method of backing up Win32 machines will soon be impractical for small businesses. Expect increased interest in the Amanda Win32 clients as XP Home starts its dreadful spread through the small business world. -- pv If this helped you, http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=philovivero
