Your users don't need to use the admin functions or interface to do
backups/archives. I'm not that
familiar with NT but I may need to login with the admin id.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony White [SMTP:tony.white AT GTRI.GATECH DOT EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 4:56 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      New ADSM admin - Two questions
>
> Hello, everyone!
>
> I'm new to the list, and will be the initial ADSM administrator for my
> site.  We are about to start running ADSM for AIX v3.1, with clients
> running v3.1 backup/archive clients on NT 4.0 and Windows 95.
>
> First question:  In order to not bug you all unnecessarily, is there an
> FAQ
> file I can get to with FTP, Gopher, or WEB?  Mailing lists, like
> newsgroups, don't need to be bugged by newbies until they have gone to the
> limits of self-education.  I've gone to the IBM Web and FTP sites, and I
> don't see much.  The FAQ there is dated April 97 and doesn't even mention
> Windows NT 4.0 .
>
>         I'm starting to work my way through the on-line ADSM manuals from
> IBM, and
> the client install/usage manuals are mind-numbingly repetitive and have
> little or no platform-specific information.  For example, no mention of
> handling multiple users on an NT client, no mention of security concerns
> on
> NT, etc.  But it did, alarmingly, state that the ADSM client on an NT
> client *must* be run by user Administrator or a user in the Administrators
> group.  This would make ADSM unacceptable in our environment - we control
> our end-users tightly, and not one is allowed Administrator's privileges.
> Sure, the scheduler obviously should run as a service, installed by
> Administrator - but any user should be able to run the backup/archive
> client for restores....
>
> So, the second question: On a Windows NT 4.0 client, is it necessary to
> have Administrator privs to run the v3.1 client backup/archive program?
>
> Thanks everyone for your patience, and feel free to simply direct me to
> any
> on-line references instead of taking up valuable time rehashing common
> ADSM
> knowledge!
>
> - Tony
> ----------------------------------
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