I've been trying to get Vista to backup files to another computer on the network, and it's just not having it.
The remote machine is a Linux computer on the network. If I click open the Vista menu, and then type \\servername\backups, it opens straight away and I can drop files in there and do whatever I like in the remote location.
But, when I use "Backup status and configuration" to set up a new backup job and set the remote location to "\\servername\backups", first it asks for a password (which I enter - this is the Unix password for user Ben), then I get this message:
Vista doesn't like Samba?
But that's not the end of it. If I then go back to my remote backup location, I can see a new file in there called SDT97DB.tmp and a folder with a randomly generated name - so, it clearly can access that location as it has created folders and files there!!
Not sure if this is a bug with Vista or a compatibility issue with Samba but it's damn annoying!
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