Rob,
I ran into this problem a couple days ago. We could not get the Web Client to 
work if we specified the IP address in
the URL, but when we specified the hostname in the URL everything worked fine.
Any idea why this would happen?

Bill Nowlin
CoComp Inc.
bnowlin AT cocompaz DOT com

On Friday, January 08, 1999 8:35 PM, Rob Edwards [SMTP:rob AT US.IBM DOT COM] 
wrote:
> Kelly,
>
> Before you try and run the Web Client for the first time, ensure that the
> "ADSM Remote Client Agent" service is not running; Only the "ADSM Client
> Acceptor" service should be running.  The "ADSM Remote Client Agent"
> service will be started when needed, and will be stopped when it is not
> needed.  If it is started manually (or at system boot time) then this might
> explain why you are experiencing this problem.
>
> With this in mind, only the "ADSM Client Acceptor" service should be
> configured to start automatically; The "ADSM Remote Client Agent" should
> not.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Rob Edwards
> ADSM Client Development
> (Internet: rob AT us.ibm DOT com)
>
>
> | Alright, I've fought this long enough!
> |
> | I've installed this client on a number of systems.  I'm able to browse to
> | the client and get the initial page, but then when I click on BACKUP (or
> | any of the other buttons), I get the following message:
> |
> | ANS2609S TCP IP comm failure between the browser and the client machine.
> |
> | Any ideas?  I'm on a local network, I've got proxies enabled in the
> browser
> | since I use them elsewhere, but I've told IE4 to ignore the proxy server
> | for this IP address.
> |
> | I've seen the problem intermittently on another system I've tried.
>
> | Thanks,
>
> | Kelly J. Lipp
> | Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> | www.storsol.com
> | lipp AT storsol DOT com
> | (719)531-5926