baos Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Hi, I have successfully installed the Retrospect 7.0 trial client on Solaris 8. I have no problems doing a "Test ..." from the Retrospect 7.0 trial server that is running on Windows XP, for it locates the Solaris machine and prints out the version of the client. However, whenever I try to add the Solaris machine to the Retrospect client database (on Windows XP) it says "Sorry, that is the wrong password. Please try again". I am **certain** that I am entering the correct password. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Solaris client; same result. At the suggesting of Retrospect tech support I uninstalled the Retrospect 7.0 client and installed the Retrospect 6.5 client on the Solaris 8 machine (still using Retrospect 7.0 on the Windows XP backup machine); same result. I have tried both the TAR and PKG packages; same result. I have done the install of the TAR package on another Solaris 8 machine; same result. I know that the Retrospect 7.0 trial is properly installed on the backup Windows machine, for I have no difficulty backing up and restoring other Windows machines. The following appears in /var/log/retroclient.log: 1110464097: ConnStartListen: starting thread ConnStartListen for 127.0.0.1:0 1110464097: iplud: bound to address 0.0.0.0 1110464097: ipludAddMembership: adding membership for 0.0.0.0 1110464103: IPNSRegister(1): registered: "solixuse"/"23ff2ace5eba2995" 1110464103: ConnStartListen: starting thread ConnStartListen for 192.168.1.8:0 1110464109: IPNSRegister(1): registered: "solixuse"/"4bdc636e5eba2995" 1110464304: Connection established by 192.168.1.151:1605 1110464304: ConnReadData: Connection with 192.168.1.151:1605 closed 1110464304: ServicePurge: service not found 1110464502: Connection established by 192.168.1.151:1643 1110464559: ConnReadData: Connection with 192.168.1.151:1643 closed 1110464559: ServicePurge: service not found Any idea what's wrong? How to correct the problem? Baos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Hi When you ran the uninstall did you also uninstall the retroclient.state file? That file contains the password information. If it didn't get deleted in the uninstall the problems will continue. Rather than uninstall you can delete the retroclient.state file, and run /path/to/retroclient --setpass Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baos Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 It turns out that the source of the problem was that the password I used on Solaris was greater than 8 characters. When I removed the retroclient.state file and tried again by truncating the 9th character in the password, everything worked fine. This is not a Retrospect problem, for other software on our Solaris systems also have an 8 character password limitation (though the others that I commonly use silently ignore characters beyond the 8th). Thanks to Dantz tech support for their speedy assistance in helping me resolve this matter. The problem was resolved more than a week ago, I just got around to posting the result. Also, thanks to Nate for taking the time to respond to my post. Much appreciated! Bancroft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Wanted to let you know what I have discovered- that although you have to use 8 characters or less on initial install, you can make it longer later by changing the password from the Retrospect server... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nembot Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 good it's working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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