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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide


Considerations for NT, 2000, XP, and Windows.NET Client Services

To install and configure Tivoli Storage Manager services on the entire system, including the system registry, you must belong to a local administrator account or a domain administrator account. To back up files, you must have access rights on the local drive or directory containing those files.

By default, Tivoli Storage Manager client services run under the local system account. However, the local system account does not have access to network mapped drives and does not have the same permissions and logon properties as a user that is logged into the machine. If you experience discrepancies between a user initiated backup and a scheduled backup using the local system account, consider changing the services to run under the user account.

Domain resources, such as network drives, can only be accessed by services configured to run under a domain authorized account using dsmcutil or the Service Control Panel Application. Any non-system account (local or domain) must have the following rights:

Note:
Some Windows 2000 system objects such as active directory require Administrator privileges to perform backups.

Users without these rights can only back up files they own and cannot back up the system registry or files owned by other users. These are local user rights and must be set using the local User Manager application, and domain accounts may not automatically be enabled for them. Domain accounts may be granted local rights by the local User Manager.

The account must also have the following permissions to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_KEY_USERS, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hives:

The local system account and local administrator group possess these permissions by default. Other accounts/groups (including domain Administrators) must be granted these permissions either explicitly through the registry editor security dialog (regedt32), or implicitly by adding the account/group to the local Administrators group through the local User Manager (recommended).

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For Windows NT and Windows 2000, in order to back up the entire system, including the system registry, your user ID must belong to the administrator group or domain administrator group which has certain access rights. See Considerations for NT, 2000, XP, and Windows.NET Client Services for more information.


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