Hi I am having problems with long filenames in the netlogon share of a PDC, when trying to do a backup with smbclient. I make the backup by this: (smbclient \\\\nthum1\\netlogon -D nyvang.pds -Tcb 4 \ netlogon_nyvang_b4.pds.tar) 2>&1 >netlogon_nyvang_b4.pds.log The first problematic file is "The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.url" The log file from creating the tar file shows nothing unusual: ... getting file \nyvang.pds\Foretrukne\Imported bookmarks\Business Resources\Money Online.url of size 44 bytes as a tar file Money Online.url(6.13839 kb/s) (average 122.651 kb/s) getting file \nyvang.pds\Foretrukne\Imported bookmarks\Business Resources\Monster Board Job Database.url of size 46 bytes as a tar file Monster Board Job Database.url(5.61523 kb/s) (average 1 19.571 kb/s) getting file \nyvang.pds\Foretrukne\Imported bookmarks\Business Resources\The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.url of size 69 bytes as a tar file The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.url(2.92969 kb/s) (average 111.367 kb/s) ... But when trying to look at the tar file with "gtar tvf", I get this: ... -rw-r--r-- 0/0 46 Jan 11 16:25 1998 ./nyvang.pds/Foretrukne/Imported bookmarks/Business Resources/Monster Board Job Database.url gtar: Skipping to next file header And then it just exits. I was looking at clitar.c, and then I wanted to see if it wrote something that gtar could not understand,but it could itself. So I tried to restore with smbclient again: (smbclient \\\\nthum1\\netlogon -D test_nyvang -Txb 4 \ netlogon_nyvang_b4.pds.tar) 2>&1 >netlogon_nyvang_xb4.pds.log The logfile shows this: ... restore tar file \test_nyvang\nyvang.pds\Foretrukne\Imported bookmarks\Business Resources\Monster Board Job Database.url of size 46 bytes this tar file appears to contain some kind of link - ignoring skipping \test_nyvang\.\@LongLink... checksums don't match 0 10760 abandoning restore Am I doing something wrong? I was planning on using smbclient with amanda for nightly backups. Any hints would be very welcome. /Magnus PS: I did try to change the blocking factor, without results. I have been searcing the digest too, without results so far. ---------------------- Magnus Svavarsson Network Administrator Faculty of Humanities Aalborg University