Samba problems with file xcopy

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Wed Jan 14 22:25:18 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 23:10, M.Hockings wrote:
> dalen wrote:
> 
> > M.Hockings wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to do some quick backups from a Win2K laptop to a Fedora 
> >> Core 1 desktop but it ain't working.  The backups are just a bunch of 
> >> xcopy's. Most of them run fine but two fail and I don't understand 
> >> why.  It appears that xcopy is attempting to create directories in 
> >> both cases.  When I run the backup targeting a Win98 desktop there is 
> >> no problem.  Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
> >>
> >> d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D /EXCLUDE:d:\bat\bu2x.exclude 
> >> d:\ApplicationData\*  \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\
> >> Access denied Unable to create directory - 
> >> \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\nof7\Templates\MXTemplates
> >> 0 File(s) copied
> >>
> >> d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D "D:\Program Files\NetObjects 
> >> Fusion 7\*"  \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7
> >> Access denied Unable to create directory - 
> >> \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7\Components\ApollonComponents 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike,
> >     The access denied error makes me think of permission issues.  Try 
> > (from the laptop)
> > mkdir \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\nof7\Templates\MXTemplates
> > If this fails, you need to adjust smb.conf or directory permissions on 
> > fc1.
> >
> > Is MXTemplates the actual directory name or just the first part as in 
> > is "MXTemplates Folder yadda yadda"?  It could be a problem with spaces.
> >
> > If it is not either of these, you might try smbtar.  See man smbtar 
> > fro details.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dale
> 
> Hi Dale,
> 
> MXTemplates is the name of the file.  I can create the directory from 
> the command line in Windows with no problem but the xcopy from Win2K 
> still fails with the same error.  I'll re-check permissions though other 
> xcopy calls have created hundreds of other directories and probably 
> thousands of files but it gets stuck on these.
> 
> I'm trying to initiate the copy from Windows so Linux commands probably 
> would not help.  Hmmm, I do have cygwin installed here....
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

Then script the backup in cygwin/bash and se what happens...

Sturla





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