Hello Alpha managers,
My original question was:
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Do any of you have experience installing Windows NT clients on a Networker
server installed on a AXP machine (OSF/1)? We encounter this problem:
We have NetWorker installed on our DEC AXP server running OSF/1 (Digital Unix).
This server (referred to as "unix-host") acts as the NetWorker server.
We have recently purchased a Windows NT NetWorker client to try out on one
server (referred to as "nt-client") before going ahead with a major installation
on serveral more clients.
The installation on "nt-client" (running version 3.5 of Windows NT) was appar-
ently successful. We have the "Legato Portmapper" and "Remote Execute Service"
running and both "nt-client" and "unix-host" are known to each other (can be
"ping'ed").
However, we are unable to configure "nt-client" on the NetWorker server. We get
the error message:
"Can't access "nt-client" due to network problem, missing client nsrexecd, or
incorrect /.rhosts file, re-apply to create it anyway".
"Re-applying" doesn't help much.
On "nt-client", double clicking on "WinWorker" produces the message:
"Server "unix-host": "nt-client" is not a client of this server"
Something must be missing in the communication between the two, but taking a
glance at all the documentation provided we can't quite figure out what.
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The following solved the problem and was brought to my attention by Legato's
support staff (support_at_legato.com) :
On the NT servers you must have a "hosts" file located via the path:
C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
- and it must contain entries for both the server and the client(s).
There simply wasn't any valid "hosts" file on the NT-server. Once this was
created it worked right away.
Also thanks to the following guys for their input:
"Paul E. Rockwell" <rockwell_at_rch.dec.com>
"Didier Wagenknecht" <wagen_at_slalpha1.epfl.ch>
"Hellebo Knut" <bgk1142_at_bggfu2.nho.hydro.com>
Paul Hostrup-Jessen
Department of Electronic Data Processing
Unix system administration
Bruel & Kjaer A/S
DK-2850 Naerum
DENMARK
email: phj06_at_bk.dk
tel. : +45 45 80 78 55 + 2433 (direct dial from touch-tone telephones)
fax : +45 42 80 14 05
Received on Wed Jul 26 1995 - 18:18:45 NZST