Larry, I guess the user who's trying to take the backup on remote server 'server1' shud have enough previliges to acccess. His entry shud be in /etc/hosts.equiv Do correct me if I'm wrong.. -Ramachandra. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of larry.sorensen@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:03 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Sharing SCSI tape drives I tried tar -cvf server1:/dev/st0 /directory, but it failed. Do I need to somehow share the drive on the server, like NFS or something, or should it just be able to access it? Larry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list