In that case, I'll ask a potentially silly question: can you
see/restore the files from the original system?

Having gotten that obligatory question out of the way, what do
you see when you issue the command "dsmc q access" from the
original client (nextmachine) ? If there are no objects, this may
be your problem. You would be able to see/restore the files if
you used the "-virtualnodename" parameter, but not the
"-fromnode" parameter, b/c in the first case you are representing
yourself to the server as the other node (nextmachine), but in
the second case you are identifying yourself as yourself, but
asking to look for files from the other node. If the other node
has not given you access to see/restore objects from it, I
would expect it to fail with "-fromnode" but to succeed when
using "-virtualnode". This is why you are required to give a
password in combination with the "-virtualnode" parameter.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks Feature Animation
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Fred Johanson wrote:

>The machines are identical.  DSMC is always run by root.  When I try from
>any other machine, the response is the same.
>
>
>At 01:24 PM 5/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Is it possible that it is an access problem? You didn't
>>mention if this was being done as the root user, or not. If the
>>files on the original node (nextmachine) are/were not owned by
>>the user running the restore, you will get the no files found
>>error.
>>
>> -- Tom
>>
>>On Wed, 12 May 1999, Fred Johanson wrote:
>>
>>>I should have added that I've tried '-ina=yes -su=yes -pick'
>>>
>>>
>>>At 02:37 PM 5/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>I think the files are deleted and u may need to add -ina parameter to the
>>>above command
>>>>thx
>>>>razdan
>>>>
>>>>>>> Fred Johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU> 05/12/99 02:25PM >>>
>>>>I know "-fromnode" was discussed in detail a few weeks ago, and I passed
>>>>all on to my user, but he still can't do
>>>>
>>>>        'rest -fromnode=nextmachine "/some/files/*" /some/files
>>>>
>>>>ADSM still comes back with no files found.  Did I miss something?
>>>>Fred Johanson
>>>>System Administrator, ADSM
>>>>S.E.A.
>>>>University of Chicago
>>>>773-702-8464
>