[BackupPC-users] [SOLVED] Re: Trying to backup \Users\foobar causes "NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND listing \Users\Users\*" [rt.phys.ethz.ch #47677]

[Axel B. <be...@ph...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:37:49PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> our BackupPC server with about 70 clients runs Debian 5.0 Lenny
> (amd64) with the Debian backuppc package version 3.1.0-4lenny1 and
> smbclient 3.2.5 (Debian package version 2:3.2.5-4lenny6) installed.
> 
> The upgrade to Lenny and therefore Samba 3.2 solved a lot of problems
> with Windows Vista, but also created some new ones. One of them is
> very strange: [...]
> 
> XferLog says, BackupPC is running:
> 
>   /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\fnord.example.net\\C\$ -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - /Experiment /Users/foobar /Program\ Files
> 
> [...]
>   NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND listing \Users\Users\*
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Upgrading smbclient from 3.2.5 to 3.3.6 from Backports.org solved the
issue, so it's very likely a bug in smbclient 3.2.5 which has been
fixed in more recent Samba versions.

Short said: Samba 3.3 fixes even more problems with Vista. :)

		Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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