You're absolutely right. The permissions in the nsswitch.conf file was 440.  I
changed it to 444 and solved the problem.  Thank you very much for all your
help.

Quoting Paul Ripke <stixpjr AT BIGPOND.NET DOT AU>:

> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:49 Australia/Sydney, admin AT CF2TREE DOT COM
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > TSM server: TSM 5.1.6.2 running AIX 5.1.
> > TSM client: TSM client 5.1.5 running HP-UX 11i
> >
> > I have no problems connecting to the server running commands using
> > 'root' login.
> > Any other logins, I got the following messages:
> > $ dsmc
> > Tivoli Storage Manager
> > Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 1,
> > Level 5.0
> > (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2002 All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > tsm> q session
> > Node Name: ClientNode
> > ANS1033E An invalid TCP/IP host name was specified
>
> Check permissions on /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf (or HP-UX equiv),
> dsm.sys. Sounds like it's failing to resolve a host name.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Paul Ripke
> Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA
> 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
> 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
> -- Koos van den Hout
>