[Box Backup] Can Win32 client backup files from another machine?

[E.W. Peter Jalajas]

Hmm.  I guess we'll keep banging our heads against it.  We didn't have
a trailing slash.  I don't think we had any spaces in at least one of
our BackupLocations (not sure if it matters).  

We noticed that, due to some kind of permissions issue) we had read,
but not write, access to the remote directory (the z:\files directory,
e.g.)--that shouldn't matter, should it?  

All this discussion in the context of Ben's warning that missing
network drives will be marked for deletion, and presumably force a
complete reupload of the entire remote BackupLocation when the remote
filesystem comes back on line.  

--- Andrei <andrei at soft-dev.com> wrote:

> The computers are in a workgroup. No special settings, just a simple
> home network. Anyway, I don't think this has any relevance, if you
> can
> access the drive in explorer, so should BoxBackup. I remember I kept
> getting an error until I removed the last backslash (after the last
> directory in the path).
> 
> Regards
> 
> On 7/20/06, E.W. Peter Jalajas <pjalajas at tebuco.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's what we did last night, and we kept getting the 1/9
> error
> > (two different remote machines, a small handful of different
> > subdirectories).
> >
> > Just flailing:  Is there something special about how your share out
> the
> > directory on the the remote machine?  Are you in a workgroup or
> domain?
> > Simple file sharing?  Special DNS/NetBIOS/DHCP settings?  Maybe we
> have
> > a firewall issue on one or both of our machines.
> >
> > --- Andrei <andrei at soft-dev.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I first mounted the other computer's network share to drive
> z:\
> > > (That's in Control Panel/Network Connections/Tools/Map Network
> Drive
> > > -
> > > you enter a drive letter and a network path eg.
> > > "\\OTHERCOMP\myshare\")
> > > Then I entered in BoxBackup's config file the path for a backed
> up
> > > item (eg. z:\files)
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