Greetings,
        Perhaps my suggestion is too outside the box, but why would an older 
Win2k box NEED to be Lan-free?  In most cases I have found that a Win2K box 
can't push the data fast enough to saturate a 1Gb Ethernet link anyway, and 
usually not even a fraction of that.  If they have a lot of files to back up 
going straight to tape might be a little faster, but if you have the TSM 
Journal set up right and a recent enough version of the TSM client to get the 
best IP performance, you may find the time of a Lan backup is acceptable.  You 
may want to take the Lan-free option out of dsm.opt and give it a try, just to 
see the difference.  
        Of course, I am assuming this won't overload your TSM server, you 
didn't tell us about that side of your situation. 


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider 
Phone: 314-364-3150 
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net 


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Pavel Sitnikov
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:05 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] LAN-FREE backup from Win2k to LTO4

Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?
As we know from readme for driver:

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* General Items *

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1) Support for Windows 2000 on new IBM Tape products has been 
discontinued.  LTO 3 and 3592-E05 are the last tape drives that will be 
supported on this operating system.

we have a couple of important w2k servers and really bad idea performing 
upgrade to w2k3...

I appreciate any help.

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С уважением, Ситников Павел 
Дирекция сопровождения серверных систем
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