No I do not have a space between the -s/. Now this works on another box, alright.

I checked the init file and here are the settings I have.

remote_os_authent = true # enable remote ops$ logins
os_authent_prefix=ops$

After this hot backup runs I will put the -s back in and see if I am still getting the same errors. I don't get it because i thought the -s just means running in silent mode.

Anymore thoughts,