On 28/08/14 09:34 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Dale <[email protected]> writes: > Gary> For some reason my Bacula server isn't connecting to a Windows 7 client. > Gary> I've been having some problems with the client computer but they seem to > Gary> be settled now except for this one. I've disabled the Windows firewall > Gary> to try to resolve the problem, but that didn't work. > > Gary> I'm seeing this in the bconsole messages: > Gary> Non-fatal FD errors: 2 > Gary> SD Errors: 0 > Gary> FD termination status: Error > Gary> SD termination status: Waiting on FD > Gary> Termination: > > Gary> I also got this message at one point: > > Gary> 27-Aug 11:15 server-fd JobId 2793: Error: > Gary> /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:203 gethostbyname() for host > Gary> "<server name>.<domain name>l" failed: ERR=Authoritative answer for host > Gary> not found. > > It looks like you have a DNS problem on the server. What is your > domain name and can you do: > > nslookup server.some.domain > > and have it return correct results. Check that in your configuration > file(s) that you aren't using 'client' on the server end, but > 'server.some.domain' on the client end, or visa-versa. It might be > just a simple oversight. Also, compare it with a working client to > see what's different. Maybe you can see the difference when you > compare the configs side by side, line by line. > > Gary> I can ping the server and the client by name from both > Gary> ends. I've verified that the password is still correct. When I > Gary> activate the tray monitor on the client, it shows the last > Gary> several jobs. When I run bconsole on the client, it connects OK > Gary> and I can run the backup job, but it again fails with the FD > Gary> error (above). > > It would help if you could show the actual commands and log file > entries. Also look at /etc/* config files (since you're probably on a > unix/linux system for the server) and make sure DNS in > /etc/resolv.conf is setup properly. > > Showing how you run a job on working windows 7 client compared to this > broken one would also be good. > > John Thanks John. I finally got the time to sit down and figure it out. The server.domain lookup was OK but the client machine couldn't ping <server>.<domain>, just <server> so the connection was only working in one direction.
For some reason this machine needed a c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to make the connection to the server. Without it, it could ping the server by name but not by the full name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
