Let me preface my questions by saying that I know just about nothing about Windows administration, never wanted to, never needed to before now, so this may well be a "duh!" question.
I finially got backuppc to back up my wife's Vista computer using smb after I figured out that the user name that she logs in with is not the real user name the system uses. Anyhow, in the backup logs there are a number of Xfer errors listed. There are 2 types of error; sharing violations and access violations. The sharing violations I understand but I was surprised to see access violations since the user is an administrator. One of the files I get an access violation on is C:\Documents and Settings. So, from my F8 box I ran $ smbclient \\\\user-pc\\c\$ -U user entered the password and got to an smb-> prompt. A directory listing shows all the files under C: including one named "Documents and Settings". What really confused me is that is if I log into the Vista machine as the same user and look at the files on the C: drive (with the "show hidden files" flag turned on), there is no "Documents and Settings" file! So I have 2 questions: 1) Why can't backuppc backup all the files when using smb as an administrator? 2) Why does smbclient show files that I cannot see when logged into the machine directly? Thanks, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/