Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

Greetings everybody.

I am a new user of Bacula, and am having a very strange problem with  
setting up a new system that I hope somebody can help me with.

I successfully set up a new installation of Bacula on an Ubuntu 24.02  
server using the default configuration, and was able to run the  
BackupClient1 test backup job without any issues.  I then tried to  
setup a second storage daemon on my main Slackware64 15.0 server,  
where all of my free space is for storing backups.  I was able to  
compile Bacula, start the storage daemon, and successfully communicate  
with it via bconsole, but every time I would try to use it to run a  
backup, it would tell me that it 'Cannot find any appendable volumes.   
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume", and I would  
have to cancel the backup.  Again, this was using the default example  
configuration, with the only change I made was pointing the "Address"  
on the Ubuntu director to the Slackware storage daemon.

I tried setting up a second Ubuntu VM, and with that I was able to  
successfully run the backup job from my main Bacula installation using  
the storage daemon on the second Ubuntu server.  I then also set up a  
full installation of Bacula on a new Slackware64 server, and was able  
to perform a backup to the secondary storage daemon on my main  
Slackware server, ie: the server I was trying to get working with the  
first Ubuntu Bacula setup.

So it seems that using the same distributions, one director server can  
talk to a storage daemon on a different server, but is unable to talk  
to a storage daemon on a different distribution.  Just wondering if  
this is normal, and if not, what could be wrong with my setup that  
this is occurring?

Here is the command line I am using to build Bacula on my Slackware servers:

CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
   --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
   --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula \
   --localstatedir=/var \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/bacula-15.0.3 \
   --with-working-dir=/var/bacula/working \
   --with-scriptdir=/var/bacula/scripts \
   --with-logdir=/var/bacula/working \
   --with-plugindir=/var/bacula/plugins \
   --enable-smartalloc \
   --with-postgres \
   --enable-batch-inserts \
   --disable-conio \
   --with-readline=/usr/include/readline \
   --enable-largefile \
   --disable-ipv6 \
   --with-openssl \
   --build=x86_64-slackware-linux

I also had all this working with Bareos a few weeks ago, but after  
finding out about the lawsuit situation, decided to switch everything  
over to Bacula.

Thanks in advance.

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