Actually, because of the server-side authentication requirement, you can't back up network shares without logging in. As far as persistent, your network mappings are actually re-established each time you log in, so services don't have access to them. Instead of a prescheduled command, because there might be mapping inheritance issues across shells, you might try, for your backup, a script/cmd job with....
net use x: \\servername\share mypassword /user:mydomain\myaccount dsmc inc x: Personally, security on Windows platforms gives me the heebie jeebies, so I don't like leaving my password in text files. I experimented, and I had some success creating a local account with the same name and password as my domain account. Under that local account, I then used: net use x: \\servername\share /user:mydomain\myaccount and it connected fine. My guess is that it sent the local account's current password to try to log into the domain account. I don't like this behavior, but I had hoped that would happen seeing as how this is a Microsoft OS. I didn't go the extra step to confirm that's what was happening, but it might be worth your experimentation. I hope this helps. Alex Paschal (MCSE, btw) Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do you backup network drive w/o logging in? You can try using the flag "/persistent:yes" on your NET USE command when initially mapping a drive from your windows b/a client to the NAS device. The mapped drive should still be available when you log out. The only issue is that you will have to run your TSM Scheduler service under an account other than system, one which has rights to access the NAS device. John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-484-5435 http://www.compures.com "Brown, Bud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/18/2002 08:48 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: How do you backup network drive w/o logging in? I am looking for suggestions. I have a NAS solution that needs to be backed up. I was hoping to specify a network drive on a particular windows b/a client, until I realized that I had to be logged in all the time to back it up. I want to be able to backup a NAS share without being logged in all the time...any suggestions are appreciated. The only thing that I can think of is to run a pre and post script that maps a drive prior to backing up. We have 2 RS/6000's with AIX 4.3.3 running Tivoli 4.1.4.1. Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator
