Use of CNAMEs really effective?

[Jonlas]

hi anyone,

i'd like to know if using cnames for servers to be backed up is really effective?
i'm using BE8.6 for W2K/WinNT Build 3878 (server and remote agent). i have
a backup stream where i need to have one server at the last - since it's
dependent on the others - i.e. the others need to have backed up first (database
committed, flushed, etc.) before i should back up the last server). so what
i did is to create a cname for the last server to let BE work on it last
(named it as "zzz...&quot - since it seems that BE works on the list alphabetically.
the backup for the stream works fine but always result as FAILED with the
following message at the last server where the cname was used:

"Unable to initialize Remote Agent for Windows NT/2000 - performing standard
backup
WARNING: Media servers cannot completely protect remote
Windows 2000 servers or workstations unless the Backup
Exec Remote Agent for Windows NT/2000 is installed
and running on each remote Windows 2000 server or
workstation to be protected. Data loss can occur if the
Remote Agent for Windows NT/2000 is not running
while backing up remote Windows 2000 computers."

i'm sure the remote agent on that server is setup ok. and i even applied
the AddedToRNR registry fix before the backup started.

does anyone have any idea as to what problem i'm facing here?

thanks in advance!

cheers,
jonlas