Davina, Please excuse my ignorance ... WHY IS IT NECESSARY ?

I understand why antivirus is needed, like a vaccination is needed to
keep things healthy and keep malicious software from infecting your
machine.

Exactly how is questioning something you don't comprehend being naive ?

I've been using/running Networker for about 10 years... Long before it
did any type of 'authentication' to the best of my knowledge ... 
Since it's been introduced, I have only had problems with it... And no
one has pointed out the benefits or why it should be required to backup
a client machine... If you go to all the effort of installing Networker
client package on the client, specifying the server (or servers) allowed
to back it up, and then configure it on the server to be backed up,
please explain in detail how the extra step of Authenticating the client
before backing it up is a benefit ? 
Where is the value added in this extra step ?
I would be amazed to see someone trying to have a machine masquerade as
an existing client in order to get their data backed up for whatever
reason.... Who would go to such effort ? Unless you have actually
attempted or seen this ?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:59 PM
> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Goslin, Paul
> Subject: Re: [Networker] auth error after upgrade to 7.4.2
> 
> Goslin, Paul wrote:
>   (I fail to
> > understand why Networker needs to authenticate a client in the first
> > place?)
> 
> That's a rather naive comment. Of course it is necessary to 
> authenticate.
> 
> It's a bit like saying that you fail to understand why it is 
> necessary to run anti-virus on a Windows system.
> 

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