[EMAIL PROTECTED](Marty)  25.08.05 19:22

>I'm looking for a way to back up the "Documents and Settings"
>directories on a Windows XP box on my network, and rsyncd is not
>currently an option. I tried without success manually enabling
>sharing.

The user must have the right to enable sharing.
I would not give any "normal" user that right!


>One possible solution I considered is "Hidden Administrative Shares,"
>e.g. C$ for a C drive.  I've never gotten C$ to work, 

You must use an admintrative account. That account must have the 
right to log on remotely. Yepp. Windows permissions are much more finer than
unix world thinks...
If that PC is part of a Domain/ADS "add" power of 4 of problems...

>however, on this particular Windows XP host, nor have I found evidence 
>of any hidden administrative share on this system.
>When I try to log onto C$ with
>smbclient I get the following error:

>   tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

You know the difference MS makes between

net use * \\host\share
net use * \\host\share\

and the "beatifull" error message you get?

But of cause:
An stupid paranoid admin may have removed Admin-Shares.



>(I get a similar error message attempting to back up C$ using
>backuppc).

Check the permission.

YIC:
Of cource the remote account MUST have a password!
XP checks this and will not allow such acconut to open anything
remotely (One thing MS did right...?)
default "guest" acccount is disabled too.

Rainer



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