ITEM: BD6400L

problems with remote services

Question:

Env:  
      AIX 3.2.5  
      RISC 590
      sysback 3.3.1.8

Desc:
Cannot set "Show disk image file backup/restore options?" to yes
on the client system.
 First, on server gave remote root user authority to only 
 write to /dev/rmt0. On client side, smit menu 
"Add or Change list of Remote Backup Services" 
   "Show disk image file backup/restore options?" to no.
 This worked fine.

 At later point gave all remote users permissions to server 
 directories.  Went back to above menu and set
 "Show disk image file backup/restore options?" to yes.

 We then received error:
   cfgremserver: Server has not permitted this host to write 
   to disk files.

 Show below is the .remote_acces file on the server system.

 +ralph:+root:/dev/rmt0::
 +ralph:+all::/tmp:/usr
 +ralph:+lmiller::/usr/lpp/sysback/bf /tmp:/usr/lpp/sysback/images /home

 Shown below is the smit output of the "List client Access" 
 option:

 Hostname: ralph
   User:     all
      Devices:             (none)
      Backup Dirs:         /usr/lpp/sysback/bf /tmp
      Install Image Dirs:  /usr/lpp/sysback/images /home

   Hostname: ralph
   User:     lmiller
      Devices:             (none)
      Backup Dirs:         /usr/lpp/sysback/bf /tmp
      Install Image Dirs:  /usr/lpp/sysback/images /home

   Hostname: ralph
   User:     root
      Devices:             /dev/rmt0
      Backup Dirs:         (none)
      Install Image Dirs:  (none)

This is a problem only if the root user on the client has not 
been permitted disk file access by the server. Therefore, if 
root does not have acces, no one does. This has been changed 
so that the disk file access for root user is not checked prior
to configuring this option, but a note is displayed when 
configuring to show disk file options indicating that only 
users with backup directories configured on the server will 
receive disk file backup options.

Fix in sysback 3.3.1.10




Support Line: problems with remote services ITEM: BD6400L

Dated: January 1996 Category: N/A

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