Glad you got your stuff working Shawn... I was going to suggest comparing the IP address of your tape server with that of a reverse DNS lookup.... I think I had problems with that....
So while I am thinking about it, I will pose a question on this same thread since the the diagnostic errors seem similar.... I configured a client with an IP address in the ".amandahosts" file. The ip address was a "static" ip address that is associated with a gateway. The tape server is on a private (192.168.1) network with an IP address of 192.168.1.11. With only the IP address of the gateway, I could not get through the BSD style authentication... Then I changed the contents of the .amandahosts" file to the actual reverse DNS name served by DNS servers and things started working... (which is associate to the same IP address) Now, does this seems reasonable or did I also probably change some other thing in the process that corrected my auth problem, unbeknownst to me... :) J
