And a question from Richard Sims - is there a quick answer to his question?
Didn't you get this to work?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 9:01 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: AFS or DFS anyone?
>
> As a site looking into the best way to perform buta backups for DFS
> file systems, I'd appreciate guidance from experienced sites...
>
> I've found that if you perform 'buta' and 'bak' from interactive
> windows that you have done a 'dce_login cell_admin' to, you can
> run them just fine.  But if you try to put them into a script to
> be run by cell_admin, it fails to work, as in 'bak' being unable
> to contact 'buta', apparently for lack of discrete authentication.
> (That is, the processes are spin-offs from cell_admin, and are
> not directly authenticated.)  So it looks like I'd have to code the
> script to run the 'buta' and 'bak' as command arguments to the
> dce_login command - which would in turn force utilization of keytab
> files to avoid having the password show up in the command line, and
> so it gets awfully complicated.  I had initial thoughts of maybe
> using 'bos create' to make these DCE cron jobs - but that gets you
> no authentication (the server still has to authenticate itself).
>
> So I'd like to learn how other sites have approached this.
>      thanks,  Richard Sims, BU