>I am, for the first time, trying to set up advanced authentication at a 
>new site where I've just started working.  I'm having pretty much no luck.
>
>My guess is that this revolves around the fact that all of the host 
>naming here uses fully-qualified names.  Thus, the main backup server is 
>
>I've tried playing with the names_allow.txt file and trying to fix the 
>problems there but I've not had a whole lot of joy there either.
>
>Has anyone else been through this before???

Sounds very similar to our setup here.  Took me quite a while to get
vopie working.  The added complication in our environment is our
machines have a second NIC for backup traffice, but the vopie keys
would be created for the primary NIC, and of course backups would fail
with authentication problems.

What we do is the following:
1) bpauthsync -vopie -servers -clients client.backup.net.sfu.ca
2) add client name to methods_allow.txt on server
3) bpauthsync to push out the new methods_allow.txt to the client
4) add a line to names_allow.txt on the client for our server
 backupserver : 1.2.3.4 # 1.2.3.4 is the ip address of the 2nd NIC


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Jeff Bryer                              bryer AT sfu DOT ca
Systems Administrator                   (604) 291-4935
Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University