If PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is in effect, then TSM should normally handle
regeneration of the passwords. Maybe someone manually reset the password
on the TSM server side?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/27/2007
12:45:48 AM:

> Hi,
>
> I just started at a new company and for the moment they are still
running
> TSM. One of the clients on Windows 2000 Server SP4 (5.3.4.0) did not
backup
> last night; the message I got in the errorlog was '08/27/2007 08:04:53
> ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt  because
the
> process is running in the background.'.
>
> I checked the dsm.opt and confirmed that the option PASSWORDACCESS
GENERATE
> is set. I suspect that the problem stems from the fact that the backup
is
> started through a batchfile using the Windows Task Scheduler instead of
> through the TSM Scheduler service (which is not installed) for some
reason
> not yet known to me. Am I correct in my observation and is there any
> workaround - as this problem will most likely come back as soon as the
> password expires again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rick Harderwijk