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paul
Asked: 2009-05-13 08:33:26 +0800 CST

Vista Backup app with Linux/Samba

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I have been trying to make Vista Backup app work with a Linux/Samba shared drive. I have Samba configured and can access it fine from the Vista box, including reads, writes and deletes. However Vista Backup always ends up failing with error 0x81000006. So is this possible? Has anybody gotten this to work? And if you have gotten it to work, will you paste your smb.conf file (my guess this is the problem)?

Thanks.

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  1. Best Answer

    To get Vista backup to work with Samba you need:

    • Version 3.0.25 or above of Samba
    • Have ACL support enabled in your Samba file system - to do so, add 'acl' to your mount command LABEL=/backup /backup ext3 acl 1 2
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  2. If you can map the drive using either name or ip and sharename, and can rwdx the share, I suspect this is a problem with the vista box, not samba. This link has a few suggestions.

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  3. How large are the files being backed up? I know that there use to be a limitation of 2GB file sizes, and I haven't heard that it's been resolved. I ended up going to NFS for backing up windows machines to a Linux box (via Unix Services for Windows to mount the NFS volume). I don't know if that's pertinent to your situation or not, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

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