Sounds like you don't have communications with the ADSM server... if you are
using TCPIP, is it running on your AIX client?

> ----------
> From:         William Benford[SMTP:benfordw AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent:         Friday, June 12, 1998 7:45 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Failed INCR. Backup
>
> I have an AIX client that won't backup. If I run the backup manually from
> the
> client(dsmc), I receive the following:
>
> ----ANS4029E Session rejected: Communications protocol error---
>
> I'm able to ping the Server from the Client and from the client(dsmc) I'm
> able
> to run the following cmd (q sched) which communicates with the ADSM
> server.
> I have many AIX clients that work fine and I can't see any difference
> between them and this one. Anybody else ever come across this ?
>
> AIX 4.2.1
> ADSM Server ==> Ver. 2.1.5.18
> ADSM Client   ==> Ver.  2.1.0.7
>
> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
>
> WILLIAM H. BENFORD jr.
> benfordw AT us.ibm DOT com
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