On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:46:25PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]> [20091210 13:21]: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting I learned (soemthing else I don't like about Windows). > > > > > > I have been doing some more googling. Can any assure me that someone ?has > > > made a windows client work, after chnaging the backup user from > > > amandabackup? > > > > Yes, I've talked to a number of folks on #amanda (and a few here, > > IIRC) who are using it successfully. But that's about all I know :( > > > > > I seem to have run out of things to try her. I am just about to decide > > > that > > > I can't make Windows backup work, which would be too bad, as it would > > > encorage the Windows folks to labby for aomething else. > > > > This may be due to a bug in the new release that was discovered. > > Paddy is looking into it, and will let you know. It's only 10:20am > > Pacific time - don't give up yet! ;) > > I've been following this thread with interest as I'm about to embark > on a similar quest, backing up a windows xp 64bits client which has > copious amount of data... > Reading from this thread and from the zmanda wiki: Is it true that the > zmanda windows *client* requires that the amanda user on the *server* > side *must* be named `amandabackup'??? > Please, tell me this is ain't so! >
No , there are you happy now :-) Seriosuly, I just failed to scroll down far enough on the wiki page to see the instuctions as to how to do this. And they must be clear as I have never down any work on Windows, and Iam failry certain that I got it right. I almost went and said regedit to my Windows admin, but I figured he would say "su root ; cd / ; rm -rf * " back to me :-) -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
