Can you access the share via standalone smbclient, since that's how you're
choosing to back things up? As I recall, there are some registry changes
necessary for Windows 7 but that might only be for domain membership.
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
Kris Lou
k...@themusiclink.net
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, <ow...@netptc.net> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From: *Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de>
> *To: *General list for user discussion, questions and
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> *Sent: *6/6/2011 10:03:45 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7
>
> Hi,
>
> higuita wrote on 2011-06-05 22:10:28 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc
> and Win7]:
> > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
> > > all other machines on the LAN) and pings work fine. Backuppc fires off
> > > the error "Get fatal error during xfer (no files dumped for share C$).
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Yes... share the c drive... depending on your config, you might
> > not have the c$ share enabled by default (or restricted by the firewall
> > and network settings).
>
> shouldn't that lead to a different error? As I read the source, "no files
> dumped for share" is produced for a dump where no other error was detected,
>
> yet no files were read - perhaps due to insufficient permissions to access
> any files (oh, and it's "*Got* fatal error ...", so we know it's only an
> approximation of the actual error message ;-).
>
> More context from the XferLOG would probably help in determining the actual
>
> problem. Are there error messages which BackupPC couldn't interpret leading
>
> up to the "no files dumped ..."? Have you tried running the exact same
> command BackupPC is trying from the command line? Can you connect to the
> client machine with 'smbclient' (something like
> 'smbclient //host/C\$ -U backup-user', if 'backup-user' is what BackupPC is
>
> using; see the man page for details) and list the contents of the share?
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
> Holger and Tom et al
> Due the the frequent MS warnings about sharing the C drive I decided to
> merely create a shared folder called Users. This folder is accessible from
> the 3 other machines on the network (XP and Vista) without difficulty. When
> I attempt to do a full backup I again get the same error message. Here is
> the full error from the Log:
>
> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\larryshp\\Users -I 10.10.10.101 -U backuppc
> -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
> full backup started for share Users
> Xfer PIDs are now 3355,3354
> session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
> session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share Users)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share Users)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>
> The computer name and IP address are correct but the session setup fails.
> Any suggestions of where to go from here? BTW thanks Tom for the rsync
> instructions but since I already have 3 machines operation successfully I'd
> like to try the samba approach before I "throw the baby in the sea".
>
> Larry
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