Wow, you and I are at almost the exact same place with the same problem. I too am getting errors about port numbers that I didn't set up in the configuration, when I compiled amanda.
I've been assuming that my firewall was translating port addresses in addition to IP addresses, but this doesn't seem possible or workable. For what it's worth, I compiled both the tapeserver and client copies of amanda with: ./configure --with-tcpportrange=10084,10100 --with-udpportrange=932,948 --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-portrange=10084,10100 --without-server For the tapeserver. I left out the "--without-server". The errors I was getting referred to the 40000 range (Sorry, don't have an exact copy. Will try to generate one tomorrow.). We use an Elron firewall here. Odd that we're both JHU, too. -Kevin Zembower >>> Nevin Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/15/02 04:15PM >>> I'm having some trouble setting up an Amanda client sitting in a DMZ of a firewall to talk to an Amanda server sittin inside a firewall. I've tried to follow the answer in the FAQ and also read the various posts on amanda-users. However, I can't get it to work and some questions till linger: 1. When the docs say pass --with-(udp)portrange=xxx,yyy to configure, which configure are they talking about? The client or the server? 2. In John R. Jackon's post "Use of UDP/TCP ports in Amanda...", in the secition titles "Firewalls and NAT", it says "Just pick user UDP and TCP port ranges and build Amanda with them..." Again, is this on the client side or the server side? Or both? 3. I've compiled Amanda with --with-portrange=4711,4715 --with-udpportrange=850,854 on both client and server side, but when I run amcheck, I get errors like: ERROR: xxx: [host yyyy: port 7062 not secure] where xxx is the name of the machine in the DMZ that I'm trying to back up and yyyy is the name of our firewall/router, not the server that sits inside it. I hope I am being clear. TIA -Nevin