Have you tried mapping remote directory as drive letter and proceed as
usual, i.e. "net use r: \\10.0.0.7\tsmdata" and "def dev remdir dir=r:\" ?
I would highly recommend you to use server-to-server virutal volumes
instead.
How your client intends to restore from those offsite volumes?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:        Remote Sequential DeviceClass

Hi TSM'ers

My client wants his offsite backups not to go to tape but rather to his
remote site across the WAN.

The solution we decided on was to create a Sequential File Device Class on
a Windows 2000 share and use this as a copy storage pool.

Whenever I try and create it using the browser, I enter the directory name
as \\10.0.0.7\tsmdata and it fails with the following error:

ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter.

I initially thought that is was 2000 that was responsible for this, so I
tried it on another Win2K box with the same authorities/shares etc and it
worked.

I have even made the TSM server part of the Administrators Group on the
remote Win2K box but still no joy.

Any ideas

Ta
John