Geoffrey,

> The log shows " TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt

> because the process is running in the background." I did run dsm
first, when

> it prompted I entered the password but starting the service still
shows the

> message. 

I faced the same problem some times ago, and found out that the password
was systematically deleted from the registry each time the service was
started. It looked like I was hit by this :
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=1110519&uid=swg21110519
&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en 
Not sure it is your case, but thought it could possibly help !
Cheers.


Arnaud 

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Thursday, 16 February, 2006 01:22
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 5.3.2.2

Mark Stapleton wrote

>Before blaming the TSM version, it appears that you're running the TSM

>client from the start menu, thusly:



Not sure you you get blame from a question but in any case I am not
using the start menu because I know full well the need to specify

the optfile option in this case. What I have set up is a shortcut to dsm

with -optfile in the target. This works just fine on the windows 2000

clusters I've set up. Unfortunately starting dsm from the command line
with

-optfile doesn't work either.



The log shows " TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt

because the process is running in the background." I did run dsm first,
when

it prompted I entered the password but starting the service still shows
the

message.



Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com