>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

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