Hello,

Specify the user that will be requesting a recover in your .amandahosts
file. In your example:

 tony-lx.magpieway.net root

Separate the host and the user with a blank space. It works for me. :)

Regards,
Pipoli

> Hi,
>
> I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs
> successfully, as does amdump.
>
> However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message
> "cannot connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused"
>
> .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost, as
well
> as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do the
backups.
>
> Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone point me
> in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1.