Great, thanks again for the help!!!

Using the post 33268 allowed me to connect. How would I have known if you did not specify? I see nothing referring to this port in the Starwind console.

Thanks

Anatoly, thank you for your email response, i have installed the additional software as requested but can still not connect to the tape drive. can we scheduled a webex to review my settings?

Additional logs 8/19 8:17:51.138 d48 Srv: StarWind Tape Redirector v5.8.0 (Build 20120319, [SwTredir], Win64) 8/19 8:17:51.138 d48 Srv: Built Mar 19 2012 15:44:01 8/19 8:17:51.138 d48 Srv: Windows v6.2 Datacenter Edition (Build 9200) 8/19 8:17:51.138 d48 Srv: System CPU count: 8 8/19 8:17:51.138 d48...

All, i'm sure this may be a simple issue but it eludes me. I have installed the StarWind Tape Redirector on a Windows 2012 physical server with a LTO tape drive. My goal is to provide access to the tape drive to a Wind 2008 R2 VM on the same machine. This VM will run Backup Exec 2012. I have install...