>Yes I did find it, now I'm down to what lookes like permissions probs:
Yup. >check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from root@cain] >... >I guess I don't understand though because my .amandahosts on the backup >server has: > >cain.usace.army.mil root >cain.usace.army.mil amanda > >Any ideas? You have to read that error message *very* carefully. It says the request came in from "cain", not "cain.usace.army.mil". For whatever reason, you're not using fully qualified domain names (*). Adding this line should fix (get around) your problem: cain root >- db John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*) This might be a problem with your DNS or your /etc/hosts file. The actual problem is that a reverse (IP -> name) lookup on the server (amidxtaped) side returned just "cain" for whatever IP address the client has. These tools might help: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gethostby*.c In particular, build gethostbyaddr on the server and hand it the IP address of the client. I'm betting it just says "cain". Then all you have to do is figure out why :-).
