[daip] tape error (aips)

[Pedro Manuel Augusto]

Dear Eric,

> 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.

This is not possible, however, since "astro" has no AIPS installed.  
(this is a unique situation where I am alone - no Unix or Astronomy
experts - in this island and University trying to install AIPS somewhere;
after years of fight I decided that at least on my PC I should be capable
of doing it;  with help, of course) 

In this past week I have been trying lots of things, still without
success. I have noticed that a SSH connection is vital to get the Tape
deck working properly remotely on "astro" with the AIPS on my machine (and
from my machine). However, astro does not have SSH installed and my
attempts to do it failed. After a long email dialog with Openssl, Openssh
people, it seems rather difficult to get this working properly here.
However, telnet works fine from my machine to "astro". Since there are no
security problems (both  machines protected from the outside world by a
firewall), is it possible to use telnet for the connection from AIPS? How
can I change this? I have also considered the possibility of bringing the
tape deck over here but, unfortunately, it is Sun-only compatible and I
have a PC.

> 
> 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.

Did all that but found the more severe SSH problem I described before.

> Congratulations on all your progress.

Thanks. I would never have got this far without your help.
Regards,

Pedro