[olug] smbtar and win2k

[Jon H. Larsen]

I'm attempting to back up a user's My Documents directory and I'm 
encountering some problems using smbtar. Samba 2.2.7 is running on my 
linux box with the tape drive I'm using.

My shell script I'm using:
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#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter password: "
read -s PASSWD
smbtar -s hostname -x C$ -d "\\Documents and Settings\\user\\My 
Documents" -v -u administrator -p $PASSWD -t /dev/st0

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I connect as administrator and everything looks good until attempts are 
made to read files.  Here is the output I get:

Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
tarmode is now full, system, hidden, noreset, verbose
                directory \Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My 
Pictures\
Error writing to tar file - Invalid argument
Didn't get entire file. size=2310144, nread=65520


Oddly enough, the nread=65520 is exactly the same for each file that is 
being read.  I don't see anything in the man page for smbtar for tar 
arguments that can be specified.

Access to the tape drive works fine, I can pull status, eject, everything, 
so I know that's not an issue.

There aren't any problems with this Win2k box logging into my samba shares 
on my fileserver.

Didn't get much help from a google search.

Anyone else using smbtar?  Your thoughts?

Jon L.




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