JIm,
        Not sure if ADSM supports this or not but did you try adding one of the
users to the BACKUP OPERATOR's group on their local machine ???

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Jim White[SMTP:jwwhite AT SRP DOT GOV]
>Sent:  Thursday, June 13, 1996 9:44 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Windiws NT file access errors
>
>We are moving to Windows NT on the desktop and will be using ADSM for
>backups.  Our
>users are not local admins, rather they log on to our NT domain with
>minimal
>priveleges.  This scenario apparently presents some problems for ADSM
>in terms of file
>acess.  For one thing, they are unable to backup the registry on their
>machine (error
>ANS7643E followed by ANS7641E followed by "Active object not found").
>When "no" is
>specified for the BACKUPREG option is DSM.OPT, the registry backup
>problem goes away
>(naturally), but then all kinds (hundreds) of "Access denied" errors
>occur when
>backing up files.
>
>Is there someway that a plain ole user logged in to the domain can run
>ADSM with admin
>priveleges on their machine to prevent these errors and get a clean
>backup? Are we
>going to have to give users local admin authority to solve this?  Any
>other ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Jim White
>jwwhite AT srp DOT gov
>