swilson296 Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 I have a problem with Retrospect Express 5.X and Professional 7.0. I have experienced this same problem in three different environments, using WinXP, Win2K, and different versions of Linux and Samba. No firewalls are in use. When running automated backups to a network share (samba on Linux), Retrospect gives the error: Can't access Backup Set Steve_C, error -1101 (file/directory not found) If I manually run the backup, it will work approximately half the time, but usually only after it asks where the backup set can be found. Most of the time, Retrospect says that my mapped network drive does not exist, even though it is seen by windows and I am reading and writing to it. Retrospect is the only piece of software on my machines that has trouble identifying these network drives. Has anyone else experienced this issue, and found a resolution to it? Thanks! -Steve in Phx. two_wheeled@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Hi In Retrospect 7 have you specified a user to run Retrospect as in the Retrospect security preferences? Make sure it is the administrator of the machine running Retrospect. Samba had some problems with Windows logins in version 3.06 and earlier. Make sure you have a current version of samba installed. Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swilson296 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 I'm running Retrospect 7.0 Professional and Samba 3.0.14. If I go into preferences and set this to always run as Administrator, and enter the password, what goes into the "Log on to:" field? Is it looking for a server, a name or ID, or what? This field is not documented in the user guide, and without that field it says "can't grant necessary user privileges". Thanks! -Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swilson296 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 After a bit of searching online I found the reference I needed, and put the local machine name in the "log on to" field. We'll see if this works at the next scheduled backup. -Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekahn Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 What's the verdict? Did it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekahn Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Are you using a Maxtor Drive? Seems most that have this problem, myself included, are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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