Hi I am trying to get amanda backup from windows machines up and running, currently without any success:
I have tried three hosts two windows machines and one unix box and both windows boxes fail. The log of amcheck -c looks like this: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: snap1: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? WARNING: wins4: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 3 hosts checked in 29.156 seconds, 2 problems found The disklist: snap1 //snap1/iss/ samba wins4 //wins4/software/ samba sun10 /var/www/ comp-user-tar amandapass: //snap1/iss/ user%password TUD_FB20_ISS //wins4/software/ user%password TUD_FB20_ISS the dumptype samba of amanda.conf define dumptype samba { program "GNUTAR" comment "partitions dumped with tar" options compress-fast priority low } The system itself is a 2.4.2x linux box with debian woody and a backported amanda from debian sid: ii amanda-server 2.4.4p2-1 Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server) The most unusual ist the backported smbclient: ii smbclient 3.0.2a-0.backports.org.2 a LanManager-like simple client for Unix But since there is an entry in the changelog about fixing a bug with samba 3.0 i suppose it should work. The unix backup is working. There's no firewall, and amanda is listed in the inetd.conf: amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped host.deny is empty and host.allow has: amanda: snap1.vlsi.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de It seems to me that amcheck tries to initiate a amanda connection via udp. Which doesn't work with windows machines? I would apreciate any hints. Thanks Tim