> I've recently tried to set up my OS X (10.4.7) laptop to backup to my
> Amanda server running Gentoo.  My Amanda server has been backing itself
> up without any problems for a while now.  However, when I run amcheck,
> it times out trying to contact my laptop:

Are you sure that thereis no firewall on the laptop that would block
Amanda packets? Or a TCP wrapper?

I'd go to the log of the system and try to find any message that could
be related to the IP or the name of your server and saying that
something gotblocked.

Olivier