Vista Backup and Ubuntu Samba

[Sias Mey]

Im no sure if the complexity is actually your problem.

I suppose its possible, but I have noticed quite a bit of trouble
comunicating with samba from ubuntu on a Vista machine so its seems to
me that it might just be that M$ decided to change samba a bit.

And the results you are seeing might be Vista requireing those changes
to work 100%.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:11:14PM -0400, Michael Dunigan wrote:
>                    I am trying to use a share created on an Ubuntu server
>    (v8.04.1) as a backup target for my work Vista laptop.  To make things
>    more complex, the share maps to a directory in the file system that is
>    on an external drive and the file system on the external drive is
>    FAT32.  Sorry, I do have reasons for this complex combination, and I
>    understand that this might be the reason all is not working.
> 
>    When I try to use Vista Complete PC Backup, it gives me an error
>    message that I searched down with Google and it told me that I did not
>    have "Full Control" of the file space.  The error says that this is a
>    common problem with "Samba based" NAS units.  (Error 0x800700B7)
> 
>                    I know that most of this is Microsoft saying that if I
>    had a Windows server this would not be a problem, but does anyone have
>    an idea how to get this to work.  I have to have the Vista box to do my
>    work, so I would like to use the Samba share to back it up.  If the
>    problem is just the complexity that I have introduced, I am just
>    looking for confirmation that simplifying the setup is what I need to
>    do.  I am hoping that someone out there has gotten this to work and can
>    give me some pointers.
> 
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