SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Tim Krieglstein
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

Re: SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 at 1:40pm, Tim Krieglstein wrote 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

Re: SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Tim Krieglstein
Hi Joshua The client in your disklist (the first column) for 'doze boxes backed up via samba needs to be a *nix box with smbclient installed. When amanda contacts the *nix box, that box will then initiate the smbclient connection to the 'doze box. Thanks for the hint. It did the trick.