>I want to use Amanda to backup my Windows laptop disk. On the Windows
>side, I'd rather share the disk with user-based authentication than a
>simple share-level password. However I don't control the domain
>controller, so I can't create a user 'backup' and would rather use my
>own username. However I'm running 2.4.1p2 and it seems to force the
>username to 'backup'.
What are you running on your laptop? I mean WHAT windows? It makes big
differences.
And what Samba have you installed? This makes differences too I
understood.
>From experience, on Win2000, amandapass must be something like
//machine/share user%password domain
It must have a domain name
Olivier