cases such as this is why a client  connects with an administrative command
session and uses a select statement against the adsm.backups or
adsm.archives table.

Dwight

> ----------
> From:         Richard Sims[SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Wednesday, March 15, 2000 7:27 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: *SM RESTORE GUI
>
> >IS THERE ANYWAY TO BYPASS THAT LIMITATION OR JUST CAN'T DO IT?
>
> Mehdi - From my experience with the *SM clients, there is no way to
>         circumvent the limitation across different operating systems
> (which also have no mutual file system type support).  Your only
> recourse would be to perform the query from the client which owns
> the files, another client of the same type, or perform inspections
> from within the server.  Beyond that, appeal for remediation through
> ADSM-R.  While one would not expect incompatible clients to be able
> to work with each others filespaces, one should be able to perform
> basic queries.
>   Richard Sims, BU
>