Hi, Tar does work as you say, although I got a "permission denied" when I tried it. I was trying to figure out how to give myself permission, and the best I can figure is that Solaris will play nice if the clients are registered in NIS+, or at least that is the impression I got from reading their documentation. I don't have NIS+ set up on the Solaris box, and it doesn't seem like a fun thing to do. Other references say that rsh and rexec are useful for streaming data from a remote tape unit. Then again, other references say NEVER use rsh or rexec, because they are inherently insecure. What I need is actually different than running tar or dump. I want to read data tapes containing satellite images into an image processing program running on the Linux box. The image processing program is set up to read specific image formats from a local tape device. So ideally, I want to fool the program into thinking that a remote tape unit is local. If that 's not possible, I might have to temporarily remove the drive from the Solaris box and put it on the linux box. Thanks for you help, John Edward Schernau wrote: > man tar claims: > > -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F > use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0) > > So could you just do: > > tar -cvf SCOBOX:/dev/tape ?? > > John Craig wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am adminstering a small network that has Linux and Solaris Sparc as well as > > Win9x and Win2k boxes. We have one SCSI tape drive (Exabyte 8mm) attached to > > a Sparc station running Solaris7. > > > > Does anyone have a clue how to set up Linux to use the tape drive through the > > network as if it were local? I have been doing backups of the Win and Linux > > boxes from the Sparc using smbtar, but what I need to do also is read data > > tapes on Linux as if it were a local tape drive. > > > > Thanks, > > > > John Craig > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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