Topic: SMBFS not working with Win XP

[Brett Knuchel]

I have tried to setup both Flexbackup to backup to disk and also use Backup2WS to do the same thing.  The problem that I have is that neither of them work when backing up to Win XP, they are both fine when using Win98.  It basically comes down to not being able to mount the WinXP NTFS partition (not sure if it is because of using NTFS or if it is just a WinXP thing).  I have searched the forum and found a few references to a registry hack for WinXP but nothing on how to do it.  Is this relevant to this situation and if so can someone please point me in the right direction for instructions on the registry hack.  Also it would be helpful to know what security implications the registry hack could have.

[Nathan Fowler]

I'd check your share and file level NTFS permissions.

[Brett Knuchel]

Share Level & NTFS permissions are fine.  Access available to Everyone.

[Nathan Fowler]

You could try mounting it manually and seeing what error was generated:

mkdir -p /mnt/smb
mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //Server/Share /mnt/smb

If it's open to everyone, then don't pass the -o flag with username, password.

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Guck Puppy]

Hmm... is it relevant that in a non-domain (i.e. workgroup) environment, the group "Everyone" on any given 2K/XP machine means "Every user that *this* machine has got an account for." and specifically this does not mean "Anyone at all" or "Guest".

(Unless the "Guest" account is specifically enabled in the user manager on the 2k/xp box in question.)

G

[ryan]

Guck Puppy is right.  Default XP everyone means all users on that machine.  You can change the security policy so that everyone includes anoymous users.

ryan