It is not possible to use a CIFS share as the catalog as your initial post 
requested.
It is, however, possible to send backups to a CIFS share.

Three things are needed to do this.

1. A Windows Media Server
2. Change the 'NetBackup Client Service' and 'NetBackup Remote Manager and 
Monitor Service' services on that Media Server to run as a DOMAIN\user account
3. Define your storage unit as Basic Disk and specify the CIFS share as 
\\server\share or \\server\share\subdir

-daniel


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of steeb
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:59 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] using a network location to store backups

[quote="NBUser"]Did you select Follow NFS option in policy's attributes tab, 
after mapping the remote location as a network drive.

That's the thing, I don't see where to add the network drive or the smb share 
inside veritas as a location available for backups. The media / storage 
locations only allow mounted physical disks.

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