Are you using DNS? if you are try to use hosts files instead. 

Jim McConnell writes: 

> To all, I am 2 weeks new in the backup administration job and things are
> working well but lately I've had an error (26) client/server handshaking
> error on 1 of my nightly server backups.  I am working with veritas
> Netbackup 5.1mp3 windows 2000 server.  Does anyone know how to correct
> this problem?  Please help... 
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