This was the tip I needed to resolve this, thanks John.
It was actually more complex, becuase I am using FreeBSD's ports system to
work with software applications. I modified the Makefile in the skeleton
for the Amanda24 port to include this item in the configuration parameter
section:
--with-smbclient
After doing a 'make deinstall' and then 'make' and then 'make install'
the problem persisted, I assumed that my modification of the make file in
the skeleton wasn't being perpetuated down to the level where it actually
calls ./configure, so I dove into the
/usr/ports/misc/amanda24/work/amanda-2.4.1p1 directory, did a 'make
distclean' and then './configure' with the options from makefile in the
skeleton pasted to the ./configure command. Then I backed up to
/usr/ports/misc/amanda24 and ran 'make' and 'make install' again, and it
seems to have solved that problem.
Note that I'm far from being any kind of UNIX expert, so what I did could
easily be the totally wrong way to solve this; I'm just hacking around
trying to get stuff to work.
Now I've got the infamous 'host down' error when I run amcheck, but this
appears to be well documented.
--- Eric
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >ERROR: my.samba.server.here.com: [SMBCLIENT program not available]
>
> Run "amadmin xx version | grep SAMBA". I'm betting you won't get any
> output, which means when you ran ./configure for the client, it could
> not find smbclient. Run "make distclean", make sure the Samba programs
> are in your PATH, then rerun ./configure. Look at the output and be
> sure it found them, then rebuild and re-install Amanda.
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
