[daip] tape error (aips)

[Eric Greisen]

There appears to be two things going on here.  The first seems to be a
problem in your understanding of tapes and AIPS.

After you log in to "astro", the tape drive is local to astro not
"remote".  So you can set REMHOST = ' ' and mount the tape and that
should work.  Of course, when you then run FITLD, the data will be
loaded onto your data areas on astro rather than on your desktop.

If you want the data on, say MYHOST, then login to MYHOST and

       aips tp=TPHOST                  starts TPMONs on TPHOST - the
                                       machine that has the real tape
                                       devices)
       REMHOST=' '; TAPES              to see the MYHOST tapes list
       INTAPE = n                      where n is a REMOTE TAPE locally
       REMHOST='TPHOST'; TAPES         to see the list of tape devices
                                       on TPHOST
       REMTAPE = m                     device wanted
       MOUNT

The second problem is more serious but easily solvable one hopes.  For
security reasons the TPMONs examine a file $NET0/TPHOSTS which gives
the names of computers which are allowed access.  These names can be
in numerous forms - try

*.uma.pt

or if you get desperate

*

which should let the world access your machines.  The REMOST='ASTRO'
on astro should have worked even though is was not needed and I
suspect that whatever is in your TPHOSTS file would not accept astro.

Congratulations on all your progress.

Eric Greisen