Thanks to everyone for their responses. I am getting closer to a solution. The consensus from the NetApp engineers is that I need to upgrade the source filer (840) to at least version 6.2.1. Others have told me that I should be able to run ndmpcopy from a third machine and still be able to copy the files from the 840 to the NearStore even though the 840 is not at 6.2.1. This is where I'm at before the upgrade:

NEARSTORE> ndmpcopy -sa root:dedsam9ap -da root:dedsam9ap -st text -dt text alifiler:/vol/vol0/test p acsnas1:/vol/vol0/test Ndmpcopy: Starting copy [ 21 ] ... Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Connect: Connection Established. Ndmpcopy: pacsnas1: Connect: Connection Established. Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP: Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: cannot open /vol/vol0/test. Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP: Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP IS ABORTED Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Notify: dump failed Ndmpcopy: pacsnas1: Notify: restore failed Ndmpcopy: Transfer failed Ndmpcopy: Fatal error. Aborting ...

I can make a connection but for some reason I can't open the file on the source. Any suggestions before I upgrade would be appreciated. Also, I ran the same command with ndmpd debug set to 50 and have those results. If someone out there would like to look at this maybe they can understand what's happening better than I. E-mail me off the list and I will send a copy of the debug output if you're up to it. Thanks again for everyone's help.