Does your inetd.conf (or equivalent) have an entry for amidxtape?  You'll need
one for amandaidx to if it is also your index server.

Frank

--On Friday, August 16, 2002 12:33:54 -0400 Jason Greenberg <jg AT execulink DOT 
com> wrote:

Any idea what could cause this?  the same thing happens when connecting
from the tape server (local or remote).

amrecover> add passwd
Added /passwd
amrecover> extract

Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.100.1
The following tapes are needed: E04

Restoring files into directory /home/jg/recover-tmp
Continue? [Y/n]: y

Load tape E04 now
Continue? [Y/n]: y
cannot connect to 192.168.100.1: Connection refused
amrecover - can't talk to tape server



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Jay

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