[Samba] smbclient (Samba 4.9.4) "Unable to initialize messaging context"?

Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at
Wed Jan 2 10:05:22 UTC 2019


Am 02.01.19 um 10:44 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:

> I think this message is one of those that can be ignored.
> 
> If I run 'smbclient -U% -Llocalhost' on Samba 4.9.4 as a normal user, I
> get:
> 
> Unable to initialize messaging context
> 
> 	Sharename       Type      Comment
> 	---------       ----      -------
> ...........
> ........
> ......
> 
> But, as root, I get:
> 
> 	Sharename       Type      Comment
> 	---------       ----      -------
> ...........
> ........
> ......
> 
> The only difference being the 'Unable to initialize messaging context'
> line.


I'd be happy to ignore it ... but amanda, the backup program, does not ;-)

The amcheck/amdump binaries fail ... so smbclient-related backups don't
work currently.

I might try to edit the amanda-config to somehow ignore it.



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