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Hi. My friend has a problem that smbtar cannot recognize space character in specified filenames. He tried to execute following command line to back file "long file name" up: $ smbtar -s SERVER -p PASSWORD -x SHARE -u username -t /tmp/backup.tar \ "long file name" but smbtar tried to include three files as 'long', 'file' and 'name'. :-( Here is the

We've been having problems using SMBTAR to back up some of our PCs. It seems that the tar format used by SMBCLIENT only supports a 100 character path name. Some of the new Microsoft Software generates longer file names. This causes an error when you attempt to write these files out to the tar device. I have developed a patch that will cause SMBCLIENT to write these files in USTAR format (an

I've just noticed that --with-netatalk and --with-quotas are options to configure for samba. Is anyone using these options on Solaris 7, and what do they do and how well ? I'd really like to display a users quota as "disk size" and their remaining space as "disk free". Is --with-quotas the right way to go about this ? I also run netatalk. Do I need to use

Hi Folks, I want to use samba and amanda to backup NT/win file system. I downloaded the latest version of Samba and trying to install on bsdi4.0 and it complains that the OS is a "trapdoor" OS and will not work propperly. I installed it anyway and I can connect to NT no problem but when I connect it back to the unix box, it complains about "Bad password - name/password in a Tree

Hi all, I want to move a filesystem off of my NT server over to my Network Appliance NFS server to then be shared via Samba. I assume the easiest way to accomplish this would be to use smbtar. Do I then use smbtar to extract the tar file I create with smbtar, or, can I use gnutar? Does it matter? Am I safer sticking with smbtar? I'm guessing that since smbtar is a wrapper around

Actually I'm using the following versions: smbd -V output: "Version 2.2.1a" nmbd -V output: "Version 2.2.1a" Stefano -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Mark Cooke [mailto:mpc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk] Inviato: gioved? 31 luglio 2003 12.14 A: Stefano Del Negro Oggetto: Re: [Samba] smbtar Samba not liking the accented 'i' character ? Just a guess, Warning - don't

I am attempting to pipe the output of smbtar into gzip in a script. The problem that I have is that smbtar echo's out "Params count: 11" before sending the information out to gzip. This causes the tar file to have a "tar: directory checksum error" error. Is there any way I can get smbtar not to report the Params count? The following is the command I am using.

Hi all, Situation: We use smbtar for backups, incrementals done using -N <last date file>, and this has worked well with samba 2.2.x After upgrading to 3.0b3, using the -N (newer) option to smbtar causes a bad interaction with smbclient. Eg,: # smbtar -s PC -x Share -u User -p Pwd -d / -t - -N last-backup -v gives (if you print out the eval at the end of smbtar script): eval

I am having trouble using tar (or gtar) to recover files built using smbtar and smbclient (v2.0.4b). The files are loaded on an exabtye tape - the script runs on a Sun/Solaris-7 box and the files being tar'd are on an NT box (v4sp5). There are no error messages when the tape is built, but when I try to read it tar will just stop about 1/3 of the way in (total size is about 850MB). After

Hi, I recently upgraded to 1.9.18p8, and noticed that smbtar no longer automatically includes system files. I can't seem to find a way to include the 'tarmode system' command in the smbtar shell script. If I add a -c "tarmode system" to the $SMBCLIENT command line at the end of the smbtar shell script, I get no tarred files at all. Can anybody help me with this?

> From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> > To: "Samba Mailing List (E-mail)" <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> > Subject: smbtar multiple machines > Message-ID: <01BDDD6E.ABFF0580@garys.computer.leeds> > > Hi all, > > I'm just looking at using smbtar to backup the Win95 PC's on my network, and would like usability ideas please. >

Hello Family, In yesterday's head thumper I had to attempt to (remotely) grab some wedding photo's for my wife from my Win2000 machine to Solaris-8 running Samba-2.2.2 The examples show the following; smbtar -s dumbo -t /dev/st0 -x windows That assumes your backing up a directory, the directory is on your (windows) C:\WINDOWS I just needed a few jpg's from another drive on my

I was using smbtar to test backing up an NT server, everything works fine except that for quite a lot of the files it has an error downloading them(probably 2/3 of them actually). All it says is : Error reading file \dir\dir\file. Got 0 bytes Didn't get entire file. size=533, nread=0 I could see this happening if the file were opened exclusively such as the paging file, but to my knowledge

Program: smbtar Package: RH7.3 samba-client-2.2.7-1.7.3 Code is the same in branch SAMBA-TNG revision 1.8.2.1 and branch Main revision 1.9, and hasn't been modified for almost three years. The line numbers listed below are in referance to brance Main revision 1.9 as listed here: http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/script/smbtar?annotate=1.9 Problem: When calling smbtar with the

Hi! I have moved our samba configuration to a new hardware. Old config: PII 266 MHz 96MB memory RedHat 7.2 20Gb ide hard drive for samba shares samba-*-2.2.7-3.7.2 packages installed kernel-2.4.20-28.7 New config: P4 2.4GHz 512MB memory RedHat 9.0 60GB scsi hard drive for samba shares and OS 40GB ide hard drive for backups samba-*-2.2.7a-8.9.0

Hi I am using Samba 2.0.6 on a SUN SPARC Solaris 2.6 machine. I compiled Samba using SUN cc with CFLAGS of "-fast". All the remaining configure parameters were left unspecified. I have been trying to use Samba to backup a nerwork of PCs onto the UNIX box. Each PC has a shared network drive, and the user issues an smbtar or smbclient backup command. eg. % smbclient //dcmbpc/C

I have been regularly crashing my NT boxen trying to back them up via an smbtar (smbclient). The crash is not complete - the network layer on NT goes away. You can still operate the console, but no net traffic. This is NT workstation and server 4.0 with sp3. The UNIX samba server is Solaris 2.5 with the latest samba version (1.9.18p8?) also with other samba versions. I tried updating the NT

Ok.. Just for the record, I STAND CORRECTED! The problem does appear to be NT.. The thing that irritated me was that nobody was interested in giving any backup data! Everyone just wanted to blindly admit that it must be NT. Ok.. Enuf bitching.. On to the better stuff... Anyway, David Mansfield and I are trying to narrow down the machine configurations where this happens.. Currently, we've

hello i've observed on the last samba release, on a mandriva 2005 linux machine, something I had already seen in the past on older samba versions; when i try to dump a share from a win XP box, if i switch off verbose mode, many files at random are missing. If i run the smbtar in verbose mode all files are present. Is this a known fact? workaround? ideas? In the past i suspected a problem in

Hi all, I'm just looking at using smbtar to backup the Win95 PC's on my network, and would like usability ideas please. The tape drive I intend to use is in our RS6000 and has a capacity of 20GB before compression which means that I will be able to fit plenty of PC's onto one tape as all the PC's have <3GB HD's on them. The problem I have is how do I get multiple