[Samba] Seeking advice: Backup Exec & Samba shares

[Bruce Lane]

Fellow Samba-shakers,

	I've run into an odd problem, and I'm seeking the advice of anyone who has implemented Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 or 9.0, on an NT 4.0 server platform, to perform backups of NetBSD 1.6x systems via Samba file shares. Said problem did NOT manifest itself until I tried using Samba 3.0.0. I have jumped back to 2.2.8a, since that's the last version that was known to work, until I can get the issue resolved.

	And the issue is: When I try to browse Samba-produced file shares, it takes nearly two and a half minutes for the tree to expand. Then, when I try to select one of the branches in the directory tree for backup, I get a Dr. Watson error (an Access Violation exception), an additional error message that the program could not browse the share because the Remote Procedure Call failed, and the Backup Exec master job engine shuts down. I have to restart it before I can do anything else.

	This one has got me utterly baffled. I will happily provide logs and other such goodies upon request.

	Thanks much.


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