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Sorry for my total lack of experience in the Windows world

I turned off the Windows firewall on the Seerver 2008 box, and ran an
amchekck. Here is what I got for thta machine:

ERROR: pbuild4.mcn.chs: Server validation Failed. Please register server
with client.

Our configuration is such that the amanda backup user on all clients is
"amanda". I changed the name for the Windows client per the instructions on
the wiki, ut I am still geting this message.

What do I need to do to get past this error?

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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:24:01AM -0700, John Hein wrote:
stan wrote at 07:35 -0500 on Mar 2, 2010:
Sorry for my total lack of experience in the Windows world

I turned off the Windows firewall on the Seerver 2008 box, and ran an
amchekck. Here is what I got for thta machine:

ERROR: pbuild4.mcn.chs: Server validation Failed. Please register server
with client.

Our configuration is such that the amanda backup user on all clients is
"amanda". I changed the name for the Windows client per the instructions on
the wiki, ut I am still geting this message.

What do I need to do to get past this error?

I found that registering a name instead of an IP adress did not work
with the current version of the amanda windows client.

There is also an outstanding issue where (at least) some people are
seeing incremental dumps doing everything (as if they were level 0).
I have seen no solution, explanation or workaround for that.

Ah, actually I forgot that I had to do that at all. I will go back and look
at the wiki to figure out how I do that, thanks.

In my case, as long as I am getting backups, all level 0 would be OK, but I
do see sizes varying on my Windows clients.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this.


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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, stan <stanb < at > panix.com> wrote:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this.

As you finish setting this up, please edit existing wiki articles or
create new ones, to help the next person!

Dustin

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Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:57:27AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, stan <stanb < at > panix.com> wrote:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this.

As you finish setting this up, please edit existing wiki articles or
create new ones, to help the next person!

I am still unable to get past this issue.

At the moment, I cannot even get into the lgfile on the Windows box to try
to figure out why this is failing. I get an error message about the file
being open by another application, and therfore I cannot access it.

Any sugestions here?
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:18:32PM -0500, stan wrote:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:57:27AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, stan <stanb < at > panix.com> wrote:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this.

As you finish setting this up, please edit existing wiki articles or
create new ones, to help the next person!

I am still unable to get past this issue.

At the moment, I cannot even get into the lgfile on the Windows box to try
to figure out why this is failing. I get an error message about the file
being open by another application, and therfore I cannot access it.

Any sugestions here?

I hate Windiws!

rebooting got amcheck to be happy!

Having sadi that, I still can't access the logfile. This is on a brand new
Server 2008/R2 machine, if that matters.


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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:04 PM, stan <stanb < at > panix.com> wrote:
rebooting got amcheck to be happy!

What's to hate? Isn't that step 2 in the universal windows
troubleshooting process?

Having sadi that, I still can't access the logfile. This is on a brand new
Server 2008/R2 machine, if that matters.

I think ZWC runs as a service, which would mean its logfile is always
open, right? I'm really making this up as I go along..

Try stopping the service and accessing the logfile.

Dustin

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Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com

ERROR: pbuild4.mcn.chs: Server validation Failed. Please register server
with client.

Please see
http://forums.zmanda.com/showpost.php?p=4823&postcount=3

Use ZWCconfig (use start menu) and set the Server value to the ip
address of your Amanda server.

Paddy

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:

ERROR: pbuild4.mcn.chs: Server validation Failed. Please register server
with client.

Please see
http://forums.zmanda.com/showpost.php?p=4823&postcount=3

Use ZWCconfig (use start menu) and set the Server value to the ip
address of your Amanda server.

Thanks, it backed up last night.

So, I know have the Zamanda widnws client working on all of the following:

XP
Server 2003 (32 bit)
Server 2008/R2 (64 bit).

At the monent, I am not certain of the service pack, or rev of the XP and
Server 2003.

Thanks for the good work guys!

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?