On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:30:23AM -0400, Nathan Weston enlightened us: > I'm a first-time amanda user, trying to backup a linux machine and a few > windows shares. I went through the tutorial at > amanda.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html, modifying things to fit my > setup. The linux machine seems to be ok, but I'm getting some errors > with the SMB share. > > The windows machine in question is lens, and the backup server is > penguin2. On penguin2, I have a disklist entry like this: > > penguin2.genartsi.com //lens/c comp-user-tar > > When I run amcheck, I get the following errors: > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > ERROR: penguin2.genartsi.com: [samba access error: //lens/c: Error > connecting to 192.168.0.43 (Permission denied): Connection to lens > failed: returned 1] > ERROR: penguin2.genartsi.com: [can not read/write /etc/amandates: > Permission denied] > Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.136 seconds, 2 problems found > > Looking in selfcheck.debug, I see that it's running smbclient like this: > smbclient \\lens\c -U amanda -E -c quit > > When I run the same command manually, it prompts for a password, and > when I enter that it connects fine. But I don't see how amanda is giving > this password to smbclient (since it obviously can't prompt for it). > Maybe that's the problem? >
Yes, you need to create an /etc/amandapass file with the appropriate username/password combinations. man amanda for the details. > As for the second problem, I don't see anything in the .debug files that > gives me a clue. The permissions for /etc/amandates look like this: > -rw-r----- 1 amandabackup disk 0 Jul 10 17:20 /etc/amandates > > Any ideas? Is the user you configured amanda as actually "amandabackup" or is it really just "amanda"? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263