On Thursday 01 May 2008 16:57:47 Josh Fisher wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am now trying to work on the problems that the two of you are having > > with the Bacula FD and Win32 reparse points. Christian's problems are > > indicated in bug #1041, and Bob's problems are mentioned in a recent > > email. I believe that both of your problems are due to the same basic > > problem -- the Win32 FD does not yet fully handle reparse points > > correctly. > > > > I am having three problems working on this: > > > > 1. The two of you have indicated exactly opposite problems for version > > 2.2.10-b1. Christian cannot get it to descend into mount points and Bob > > sees it descending into junction points (to be confirmed). I could > > probably resolve this were it not for the next problem ... > > > > 2. I am unable to create any mount points on my computer (Windows Vista > > Business). I have tried setting a mount point to both a removable USB > > key that I can easily mount, and to the CDROM drive, which I can also > > easily mount, and I have tried both via the command line using "mountvol" > > and in the Control Administrative Tools. With the command line I get > > "access denied", with the Control Panel, the button to assign a path is > > always grayed out. My account is running as administrator of the > > machine. > > I would say it is already mounted, or in Windows terminology "assigned a > drive letter", since automount is enabled by default. I don't think a > partition can be assigned to a drive letter and a mount point at the > same time, thus the access denied. Try unmounting the partition first > using mountvol /p. Then you *SHOULD* be able to mount it at a mount > point (NTFS folder) using either Disk Manager or the mountvol command.
Thanks. With the above advice and using an Adminstrative console as advised by Martin, I was able to mount my USB key, but what a pain. I didn't remember how to copy and paste the Volume name, so had to type the whole thing!!!! Needless to say, I remembered how to copy and paste in a command window after the all typing :-) Kern > > > 3. There are two additional partitions on my hard disk that could > > potentially be used for testing. One is the Sony NTFS recovery > > partition, into which I can boot. However, via the control panel, I am > > unable to assign it a drive letter -- it is just grayed out. The second > > partition is an unformatted partition (very small). It too is always > > grayed out. It is as if I have no access or write permissions even > > though I am adminstrator. > > Probably a WinPE EFI (extensible firmware interface) partition, which > mountvol does not support. > > > Anyway, right at the moment, I have no way to test this and so no way to > > efficiently resolve the problem. At the moment, this problem is my > > number one priority, so if you could give me feedback as quickly as > > possible, it would be much appreciated as I only have a limited time to > > spend on this. > > > > If any one else on these lists knows why I am blocked please let me know. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kern > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/ja > >vaone _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
