AD can be integrated, but is not necessary.

Try using IP addresses only for configurations on the server and client.
It should be a slamdunk for installation.
 
--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT cdw DOT com)
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Nicholas Rodolfich
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:47 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Fastback has me stumped
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help!!
> 
> I am trying to install the new Fastback product to familiarize myself
> with
> it before I have to implement it at a client site. After several
> install/reinstall I found out the default login by accident and now I
> can
> get into the product but not much further.
> 
> I am using a blade that boots from a SAN and the disk I will be using
> for a
> repository is also a SAN LUN.
> 
> I have the Fastback manager, Control Station, Mount and the
> Administrative
> client installed on a lab machine that will act as the Fastback
server.
> This lab has no AD. I have installed the client code on a workstation
> for a
> test client and the only entry in the Fastback Client Configurator is
> basically the IP of the Fastback server.  When I go back to the server
> I
> cannot see the Fastback client I just installed. According to the doc
I
> should see it under the Storage Pool branch of the tree. Additionally
> when
> I try to do a manual snapshot there is no field for the client to be
> snapshotted only a group field.
> 
> I have heard that this product is easy to configure but I am not
seeing
> it
> yet. Is the product designed to work with AD only.  Is there no notion
> of a
> client system on the server? What am I missing?
> 
> Nicholas