[Samba] Permission problems writing to Share from SQL Agent

[Tony Earnshaw]

Neil Aggarwal:

> I have a client that is using MS SQL Server in a Windows 2003
> server.
>
> They have a Linux machine (Fedora Core 3) that is acting as a file
> server using Samba.
>
> We want to write backups from the SQL Agent for SQL Server to
> one of the shares on the Samba server.
>
> If I set the share to allow guest access, the SQL Agent
> can write the backups just fine using \\Shares\SQLBackups\pubs.bak but, if
> I require a user name and password, it gives me
> permission denied (Which I expect because I don't know how to give it the
> user name and password to use).
>
> I tried setting SQL Agent to use the Administrator account
> and then mounted the share to Y: using the user name and password I
> assigned, but when I try backing up to Y:, I get that it could not find
> y:\pubs.bak

Search/help for "runas" on the Windows machine;

Google for:

sanur.exe
cpau.exe
encrypted runas.

These will work with normal AD, how they work with ADS (Kerberos) I don't
know.

> Has anyone set up SQL Agent to write to a Samba share
> before?  Where/how do I give it the user name and password to use?

No. I've used them for other things requiring elevated privileges.

Best,

--Tonni

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