To overcome this problem (as Bill said) you have to logon with the user that
has the CIFS mount permanently and lock your server (do not logoff with that
account). This way the schedule will work.
Yiannakis

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:51 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Scheduled backups won't find paths that manual/GUI backups do

TSM Server 5.3.15
TSM Client - Windows V5.3.0.15 - Windows 2003 Server SP1

This client is connected to our EMC Celerra NAS. It is setup to perform the
backups, web-interface, etc.  The mounts are CIFS, however we have tried
doing standard "drive letter" mounts.

Here is the problem.

The Windows GUI can see and backup this CIFS mount, no problem.  Perfectly
happy.

TSM scheduled incremental backups fail/do not see the mount.

So, we tried a manual backup creating a CMD file and run DSMC.  The command
we run is:

dsmc i -optfile="c:\rose\rose-ots\dsm-ots.opt"  -subdir=yes
"\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*"

If we run this backup, manualy, it works great.

If the TSM schedule invokes the backup/CMD, it always errors with:

Incremental backup of volume '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*'
ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*' failed ANS1063E
Invalid path specification

We have tried every combination we can think of, we no luck.

What are we missing ?