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Authenticating to networked machines

Using BackupAssist you can backup to and from network drives.

If your network machines are running Windows, and they are on a domain, and you are using a Domain Administrator as your backup user, then you should be able to access the network drives without any additional work.

However, under the following circumstances, it might be necessary to manually authenticate to the network machines:

  • If the network machine is running Linux, BSD, or unix based operating system (eg. SNAP OS, Guardian OS)

  • If you are running on a Peer-to-Peer Windows network

In these circumstances, following the procedure below will allow you to authenticate to remote, networked machine.

What happens if you don't authenticate

If you do not authenticate to the remote machine, you may see an error message like:


Checking files and directories to backup

-- Warning: the following files and/or directories could not be found, and have been omitted from the backup:
\\server\share

How to authenticate manually

To authenticate to a remote machine, go to the Advanced tab in BackupAssist, and click on the link to modify your Pre-backup Script.

Then in the Pre-backup Script window, type the following for each server you want to authenticate to:


net use \\server /user:username password

where:
server is the name of your server
username is a valid username on your server
password is the password for that user

Authenticating and mapping a network drive

To authenticate and map a network drive at the same time, use the following command:


net use X: \\server\share /user:username password

where:
X is the network drive mapping
server is the name of your server
share is the share on your server
username is a valid username on your server
password is the password for that user

Page last modified on January 23, 2005, at 07:16 PM