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Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-28 19:06:50
Subject: Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##
From: Paul Yeatman <pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu>
To: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:02:48 -0700

->>In response to your message<<-
  --received from Jean-Louis Martineau--
>
> Paul,
> 
> I haven't followed the thread and I don't have old mail.
> You should not need bsdudp.
> Your disklist should specify : auth "bsdtcp"
> Are you sure you have a correct plist for bsdtcp?
> Are you sure in run the good amandad?
> Can you post it?

I'm pretty sure about all of these.  Dustin has helped me go over these
intricacies.  What, more sepcifically, would be helpul to post?

> 
> Jean-Louis
> 
> 
> Paul Yeatman wrote:
> >->>In response to your message<<-
> >  --received from Dustin J. Mitchell--
> >  
> >>Sorry, there are a lot of moving parts here, and they all need to move
> >>in the same direction.
> >>
> >>Both server and client should be compiled to include bsdtcp (and
> >>whatever else -- doesn't matter).
> >>
> >>Both server and client should be configured to use bsdtcp - the server
> >>in the dumptype, and the client in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf.
> >>
> >>The client should be listening for TCP connections using the bsdtcp plist.
> >>
> >>It's messy, I know -- it's all there for historical reasons.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Okay, I see how this should work . . . but I'm not getting the desired
> >result on my end.
> >
> >If I do everything you specify above, the server won't connect with the
> >client.  I can only get the server to connect to the client if I also
> >compile the client with bsdudp and load the according plist file.  Then
> >I get the "client configured for auth=bsdudp while server requested
> >'bsdtcp'" even when the amanda-client.conf specifies "auth bsdtcp".
> >
> >So, I'm to the point (unless you have any other suggestions to resolve
> >the problem with bsdtcp alone not connecting) of just going with
> >bsdudp.  I know you suggested bsdtcp and I would like to get this to work
> >but it just won't.  I assume you suggest bsdtcp over bsdudp for
> >security reasons.  Is bsdudp that bad?
> >
> >If I'm forced to go with bsdudp and configure both server and client to
> >use bsdudp instead of bsdtcp, I still get this error message with an
> >amcheck
> >
> > [client configured for auth=bsdudp while server requested 'BSD']
> >
> >If you notice in my previous emails, this line has always been at the
> >top before subsequent lines which then switch to "server requested
> >'bsdtcp'".  Any idea on this?
> >
> >Thanks again for all the help!!!
> >
> >Paul
> >  
> 

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