Thank you for this Nancy.  Is NT one of the platforms that supports this? I 
don't
see a user option in the NT client docs for Set Access.

I think more of the point is that on file servers that support Intel desktop end
users,  there is a need for the desktop end user to see what has been backed up 
or
archived for him and to let him/her restore or retrieve to their home directory
without getting an administrator in the way and without giving them login's into
the client platform itself.  So, on NT, for example I know I can telnet (with a 
3rd
party product, or PCAnywhere) into the NT server from my desktop and run dsmc
restore, but I don't want hundreds of users doing this.    Not everyone wants to
let users log into NT or Netware servers for services other than print and file
sharing.   It is impossible to do this under Netware, you are not going to give
remote console access to users so that they could run "load dsmc restore".

It would be interesting to learn the future direction of ADSM on this.

Larry Chisesi
CoComp Technical Services

Nancy Young wrote:

> Fredrik Lundholm wrote:
>
> >"Another thing is that I still haven't grasped is how to let each user
> >restore his own files on the fileserver.. It seems that IBM has a seriously
> >screwed picture on how to differentiate between client machines and users. 
> >:)"
>
> For multiuser systems such as UNIX, you may use the DSMC SET ACCESS command to
> authorize another user on the same ADSM client system.  For example, if you 
> use
> the ROOT user to backup all /home directories on MACHINE1 with ADSM node name
> of MACHINE1 but you would like to allow user KAREN to restore her files
> residing under /home/karen, you could invoke
>
>     DSMC SET ACCESS "/home/karen/*" MACHINE1 KAREN
>
> to grant Karen the access of the files in /home/karen/ that ROOT backed up.
>
> Karen could log in and invoke DSMC  RESTORE to restore her files in the
> /home/karen directory.
>
> Instead of command line, you may also use the GUI - under Utilities, use the
> USER ACCESS LIST to grant access to another user and ACCESS ANOTHER USER to
> access files that are backed up/owned by another user.
>
> Regards,
> Nancy Young
>
> Email: youngny AT us.ibm DOT com
>
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