SMB and BackupPC on Ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smbclient=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba-common=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 libwbclient0=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba-common-bin=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
echo "smbclient hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

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   Brad Morgan on 2012-06-14 at 20:24 +00:00

   It may not be a “bug” in the smbclient. I believe the following from http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html may be relevant. Note: I was unable to get my BackupPC working with the suggested option.

   Changed security defaults
   ————————-

   Samba 3.6 has adopted a number of improved security defaults that will
   impact on existing users of Samba.

   client ntlmv2 auth = yes
   client use spnego principal = no
   send spnego principal = no

   The impact of ‘client ntlmv2 auth = yes’ is that by default we will not
   use NTLM authentication as a client. This applies to the Samba client
   tools such as smbclient and winbind, but does not change the separately
   released in-kernel CIFS client. To re-enable the poorer NTLM encryption
   set ‘–option=clientusentlmv2auth=no’ on your smbclient command line, or
   set ‘client ntlmv2 auth = no’ in your smb.conf

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      Tyler Wagner on 2012-06-14 at 21:37 +00:00

      Thanks for that. So you tried adding “–option=clientusentlmv2auth=no” to SmbClientFullCmd and SmbClientIncrCmd, and it didn’t work?

      Does downgrading via my method above work for you? I’ve only got one data point saying it does, and it isn’t me.

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   2. 

      Brad Morgan on 2012-06-14 at 22:14 +00:00

      Yes, adding the option as you described didn’t work for me.

      I “downgraded” the hard way by reinstalling the previous working version of Ubuntu server (11.10). My server is running under Hyper-V with a separate virtual disk for /var/lib/backuppc so other than the hassle of a fresh install, I’m back to a working state.

      I’ll think about upgrading the OS again and then applying your downgrade, but it won’t happen right away. Your method would have been a lot easier than mine!

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   3. 

      terii on 2012-06-14 at 22:37 +00:00

      Any ideas? Thanks.

      
      # apt-get install smbclient=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
      or been moved out of Incoming.
      The following information may help to resolve the situation:

      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      smbclient : Depends: samba-common (= 2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3) but 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2 is to be installed
      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
      

      
      # apt-get remove samba-common
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
      ttf-dejavu-extra libio-dirent-perl rrdtool linux-headers-3.2.0-24 libtime-modules-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdbi1 librrd4 linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic
      libfile-rsyncp-perl ttf-dejavu
      Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
      The following packages will be REMOVED:
      backuppc samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient
      0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
      After this operation, 63.4 MB disk space will be freed.
      Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
      Abort.
      

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      1. 

         Tyler Wagner on 2012-06-15 at 06:37 +00:00

         Ok, we need to specify more package=version lines. Try this:

         apt-get install smbclient=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba-common=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 libwbclient0=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 samba-common-bin=2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3

         If it works, please provide your final command and I’ll update the post.

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      2. 

         Joe on 2012-06-25 at 17:40 +00:00

         From that command I get:

         E: Version ‘2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3’ for ‘smbclient’ was not found
         E: Version ‘2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3’ for ‘samba-common’ was not found
         E: Version ‘2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3’ for ‘samba’ was not found
         E: Version ‘2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3’ for ‘libwbclient0’ was not found
         E: Version ‘2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3’ for ‘samba-common-bin’ was not found

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         1. 

            Joe on 2012-06-25 at 18:01 +00:00

            disregard this.

            Didn’t see the bit about adding your repo.

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         2. 

            David on 2012-06-26 at 07:16 +00:00

            Hi There

            The downgrading works well, thanks.
            The line to “hold” the updates needs to be changed to:

            echo “smbclient hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections

            It as missing an ‘-‘ before the set-selections.

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         3. 

            David on 2012-06-26 at 07:17 +00:00

            The ‘–‘ get converted to a single –

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            1. 

               Tyler Wagner on 2012-06-26 at 10:12 +00:00

               I cannot tell you how tired I am of that little wordpress “feature”. Hulk smash!

               I’ve corrected the post, thanks!

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            3. 

               Priit on 2012-11-15 at 12:41 +00:00

               Thank You

               This also solved a problem where backuppc would not work with paths that have spaces in them.

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            4. 

               Mikko Kortelainen on 2013-03-27 at 12:10 +00:00

               This is great, thank you so much for providing these packages!

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               1. 

                  Tyler Wagner on 2013-04-17 at 19:47 +00:00

                  I just read your blog and discovered Crayon. Thanks so much, this is awesome!

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               2. 

                  Tom on 2013-05-01 at 18:22 +00:00

                  Thanks a million for providing these packages. I spent many hours trying to work around the problems described above. Applying your fix took all of five mins!

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