Hello Dave

It sounds to me like you windows clients hasn't gotten that the're supposed 
to run vnetd. The easiest way to check is set verbose to 5 and create the 
bpcd directory under netbackup\logs on the clients. Then retry backup and 
check the used ports in the bpcd logs

Regards
Michael

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:34:33 +0100, Dave Markham wrote
> Netbackup 5.0mp2 running on solaris 9.
> 
> I am backing up some windows 2000 clients over the network as normal 
> to my solaris netbackup server.
> 
> I have configured things to use vnetd so as far as im aware things 
> should be tunneled through port 13724. However IDS are seeing 
> requests to the backup server from some windows clients on port 514 
> which is an rsh port ( may be co-incidence ). Obviously windows 
> should not be talking on rsh and rsh is disabled on the solaris server.
> 
> Has any one seen anything like this before with netbackup communications?
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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