Client doesn't ask for password when IP address changes?
Hello, I'm using TSM (5.1.1.0 client) on Windows XP (SP 1) to backup my PC at home. This weekend I switched from one ISP (cable) to another ISP (ADSL). This of course changed the IP address and hostname of my PC completely. The change of IP adress is clearly visible in the activity log on the server when I search for the Session started for node BLAHBLA message. When I started the backup client after the change it never asked me for the node's password, it just logged on to the server and allowed me to start a backup. I'm absolutely sure of this because I've forgotten the password so when it *had* asked me for I wouldn't have known it. I can't explain this behaviour. Shouldn't the client prompt for a password when I change to IP address or hostname? Our server is 4.2.3.2 (4.2.3.3 in a few hours) on AIX 4.3.3.0 Kind regards, Alexander -- --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Re: Client doesn't ask for password when IP address changes?
If you had no nodename option in dsm.opt your hostname acts as nodename. Thus on hostname (not IP address) change you have to be authenticated as new node. If nodename option is defined it is used for password matching not the hostname. Either you have nodename option (and nodename/generated password pair is still valid) or your server is on open registration. Also you might changed you Internet address but your VPN address is the same. Please, please, do not tell me your TSM is open to Internet and your nodename/password is going without VPN! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Alexander Verkooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.01.2003 12:45 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Client doesn't ask for password when IP address changes? Hello, I'm using TSM (5.1.1.0 client) on Windows XP (SP 1) to backup my PC at home. This weekend I switched from one ISP (cable) to another ISP (ADSL). This of course changed the IP address and hostname of my PC completely. The change of IP adress is clearly visible in the activity log on the server when I search for the Session started for node BLAHBLA message. When I started the backup client after the change it never asked me for the node's password, it just logged on to the server and allowed me to start a backup. I'm absolutely sure of this because I've forgotten the password so when it *had* asked me for I wouldn't have known it. I can't explain this behaviour. Shouldn't the client prompt for a password when I change to IP address or hostname? Our server is 4.2.3.2 (4.2.3.3 in a few hours) on AIX 4.3.3.0 Kind regards, Alexander -- --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
Re: Client doesn't ask for password when IP address changes?
Hi, Our server doesn't allow open registration. My dsm.opt contains the nodename option and the nodename hasn't changed. So that must be why the client didn't ask for the password. I always thought that changing the IP address/hostname would cause the client to prompt for the password again regardless whether the nodename had changed or not. Thanks for explaining this to me. Best regards, Alexander If you had no nodename option in dsm.opt your hostname acts as nodename. Thus on hostname (not IP address) change you have to be authenticated as new node. If nodename option is defined it is used for password matching not the hostname. Either you have nodename option (and nodename/generated password pair is still valid) or your server is on open registration. Also you might changed you Internet address but your VPN address is the same. Please, please, do not tell me your TSM is open to Internet and your nodename/password is going without VPN! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Alexander Verkooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.01.2003 12:45 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Client doesn't ask for password when IP address changes? Hello, I'm using TSM (5.1.1.0 client) on Windows XP (SP 1) to backup my PC at home. This weekend I switched from one ISP (cable) to another ISP (ADSL). This of course changed the IP address and hostname of my PC completely. The change of IP adress is clearly visible in the activity log on the server when I search for the Session started for node BLAHBLA message. When I started the backup client after the change it never asked me for the node's password, it just logged on to the server and allowed me to start a backup. I'm absolutely sure of this because I've forgotten the password so when it *had* asked me for I wouldn't have known it. I can't explain this behaviour. Shouldn't the client prompt for a password when I change to IP address or hostname? Our server is 4.2.3.2 (4.2.3.3 in a few hours) on AIX 4.3.3.0 Kind regards, Alexander -- --- Alexander Verkooijen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing
