Larry,
Re-reading, its probably best to upgrade Samba first (3.2.5 is not listed as
Windows 7 compatible) and then troubleshoot from there.
Kris Lou
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From: *Kris Lou <[email protected]>
> *To: *General list for user discussion, questions and
> support<[email protected]>
> *Sent: *6/7/2011 11:24:51 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7
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> Can you access the share via standalone smbclient, since that's how you're
> choosing to back things up? As I recall, there are some registry changes
> necessary for Windows 7 but that might only be for domain membership.
>
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>
> Kris Lou
> [email protected]
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>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From: *Holger Parplies <[email protected]>
>> *To: *General list for user discussion, questions and
>> support<[email protected]>
>> *Sent: *6/6/2011 10:03:45 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> higuita wrote on 2011-06-05 22:10:28 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc
>> and Win7]:
>> > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>> > > all other machines on the LAN) and pings work fine. Backuppc fires off
>>
>> > > the error "Get fatal error during xfer (no files dumped for share C$).
>>
>> > > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Yes... share the c drive... depending on your config, you might
>> > not have the c$ share enabled by default (or restricted by the firewall
>> > and network settings).
>>
>> shouldn't that lead to a different error? As I read the source, "no files
>> dumped for share" is produced for a dump where no other error was
>> detected,
>> yet no files were read - perhaps due to insufficient permissions to access
>>
>> any files (oh, and it's "*Got* fatal error ...", so we know it's only an
>> approximation of the actual error message ;-).
>>
>> More context from the XferLOG would probably help in determining the
>> actual
>> problem. Are there error messages which BackupPC couldn't interpret
>> leading
>> up to the "no files dumped ..."? Have you tried running the exact same
>> command BackupPC is trying from the command line? Can you connect to the
>> client machine with 'smbclient' (something like
>> 'smbclient //host/C\$ -U backup-user', if 'backup-user' is what BackupPC
>> is
>> using; see the man page for details) and list the contents of the share?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Holger
>>
>> Holger and Tom et al
>> Due the the frequent MS warnings about sharing the C drive I decided to
>> merely create a shared folder called Users. This folder is accessible from
>> the 3 other machines on the network (XP and Vista) without difficulty. When
>> I attempt to do a full backup I again get the same error message. Here is
>> the full error from the Log:
>>
>> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\larryshp\\Users -I 10.10.10.101 -U backuppc
>> -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
>> full backup started for share Users
>> Xfer PIDs are now 3355,3354
>> session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
>> session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
>> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
>> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
>> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share Users)
>> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share Users)
>> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
>> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>>
>> The computer name and IP address are correct but the session setup fails.
>> Any suggestions of where to go from here? BTW thanks Tom for the rsync
>> instructions but since I already have 3 machines operation successfully I'd
>> like to try the samba approach before I "throw the baby in the sea".
>>
>> Larry
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>> Kris et al
>>
>> Great catch! smbclient works great with XP and Vista and fails with the
>> same session setup error as backuppc on Windows 7. Doing some Googling this
>> appears to be an incompatibility between smbclient and Windows. There
>> appears to be some disagreement as to whether this is a bug in smbclient or
>> an "overkill" security-wise on Windows 7 (potentially requiring some
>> registry editing). Before I start experimenting I'm hoping there is someone
>> on this list who has encountered and solved this issue.
>>
>> Larry
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