tar & mt on remote host

7 Sep 2002

      I can't initiate tar or mt for a tape device on a remote host.  Anyone 
an idea of what's going wrong ?

pc1 has a tape attached on /dev/nst0
    tar & mt command works fine.

 From pc2 I can't access the tape device
    tar -cvf pc1:/dev/nst0 /home
        result :
    tar : pc1\:/dev/nst0: Cannot open: Input/output error
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    mt -f pc1:/dev/nst0 status
        result :
    Segmentation fault

    But this command works : rsh pc1 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status'  or  rexec 
pc1 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status'.  Also dump -f pc1:/dev/nst0 /home works.

I'm using SuSE 7.3
Thanks for your help.
Jan Vercammen