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I have a ubuntu 12.04 running and have certain things installed like samba,nagios and likewise-open to have my ubuntu join a windows domain. this all works correctly. I am not an expert in linux although I do know some basics.

What I am trying to do is use deja-dup to backup my ubuntu machine to a windows shared folder with the windows-share method?

at the server line I filled in the ip-address of my windows server.

at the folder I put /smb://"mywindowsserver"/folder

username is the username I created for backing up. (I have read somewhere that it usually works to have the same usernames on a Windows server and Ubuntu machine with backing up)

domain name my domain name.

I am not sure I have the syntax right at the folder it is supposed to back up to

When I click backup now it does connect to the windows server and it asks for a password. After I fill it in and press enter it says that it can't mount the windows share. When I go to that server with Ubuntu file explorer, it just connects and mounts the folder fine.

Has this something to do with permissions? Or am I doing something wrong?

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I had the same issue. Following rbello1824's link I was able to resolve it. I had to select the custom location option and manually enter the location as:

smb://WORKGROUP\Username@server/Folder

Worked perfect! Thanks rbello!

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    That worked. Just as a hint, use %20 for spaces in the share name.
    – ortang
    May 5, 2014 at 18:38
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    Semicolon instead of the backslash seemed to be helpful for us although using the IP of the server was the real solution.
    – Gray
    Dec 8, 2015 at 18:49
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I had a similar problem with entering the correct storage location on my Ubuntu 14.10. I had no success with Backup location set to Windows Share. After changing to Custom I tried using a URI in the form of:

smb://WORKGROUP\Username@server/Folder`

from the answer above, which didn't work either. As I am using nemo as file manager I checked the URI to the shared folder, where I saw an URI in the form of

smb://domain;username@server/sharedfolder/folder

The difference is the semicolon between domain/workrgoup and username. This finally worked for me.

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  • Worked for me, too! Interesting thing, on next time reopening the GUI, my config got converted back from "custom" to "Windows share". (which is not a problem, but rather kind of proof, that this format is accetable). Using latest Ubuntu MATE 16.04.
    – Frank N
    Sep 26, 2016 at 9:58
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I'm experiencing the same issue. I found this somewhat old bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1018488 that suggest issues with the smb path. I've changed the URI in storage->backup location(custom location) to use the correct format. I'm not sure if this is a fix but will test this evening when I'm able.

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I am running 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) I am able to connect to my windows share folder by using setting the Storage location as a Custom Location. I set the URI to smb://WindowsServerName/$haredFolderName. Once I set these two fields deja-dup worked correctly. The windows share I used was already set up on my computer. Hope this helps,

Cheers

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On Ubuntu 16.04.2(Elementary OS) I found that after installing deja dup, I was unable to backup to my onsite Linux server, this server running a vanilla samba version and a very vanilla smb.config file, so I actually used some knowledge I gained from having to mount an SMB file share in the dreaded Mac Terminal(for some reason it wouldn't mount in Finder) on a job site, and so after using a modified form of the URI on the "Custom Location" storage selection I was able to get it to work. Here is the modified code...

smb://WORKGROUP;sambausername@sambahostname/SMBShare

This worked for me and now my Linux laptop can be easily backed up, this was a much more painless process than having to have a Mac Backup up to an SMB Share...

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