I never tried to do restore of Solaris box from Windows administrating box, but if that works then you might have an issue with permissions being set.

hm...that's sad. I'm currently doing a POC for this potential customer. I hope there's someone out there who have tried this environment before.

Well, have you set permissions first?

yup i added two root@solarisbox in the administrators group from both client and edit the hosts and server.res file.

what else did i miss sir?

Did you check if local nsrla has directed recoveries enabled? I assume servers lists both server and admin box now...

I quickly checked admin guide and from what I'm reading it should work. I think once you are on admin you have by default remote access all permissions, but perhaps just be safe you could explicitly add users to remote access too to both machines.

nsrla...will try that one.

yup both servers and admin box are in the list

yup thats what i thought also..

only, i already tried putting root@solarishostname on both clients remote access resource...

...why is it saying that the file is not in index when i could browse them using networker user? really wierd...im sure im just missing something

I just had another thought. I experienced a similar situation a few weeks ago.
Be sure you can ping the unix clients to each other. I had to add host file entries (long and short name) on both client's for each other and for the backup server and storage node. In order to read the indexes of the source client I am pretty sure destination client needs to be able to hit the Networker service on the source client.

In the client config index path field try putting the path to the client's indexes.
I am not sure about windows but Networker Server on a unix box the path for the indexes is /nsr/index.

Find /nsr/index on your windows box and add that path in the client config.