Rick,

Start a dsm, dsmc or dsmj session from the client so you can set the
password.  You should only need to do this once.

Good luck,
Jim Schneider

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rick Harderwijk
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:46 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS2050E message

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