Hey Michael,

I got one of our windows sysadmins to script the change for us ... I'm pretty 
sure the Networker installer restricts the permissions on the file so that only 
the Local System, and possibly members of the Local Admin group for that client 
have full control ...


>From memory the process that he used:
        Copy a new servers file to a location on the server that was accessible 
to his admin account
        Copy a script to the local server to the same location
                This script would move the file into place (the nsr/res folder) 
and then restart the networker remote exec service
        Remotely run the script as the local system account 

I'll see if I can post the script(s) a bit later 

Hope that this helps ..


Mat


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2013 6:31 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Renaming a server; question about clients

> You don't say anything about how you're doing this, so I have no idea 
> what the problem might be.  Perhaps if you show the list of commands 
> you tried, someone on the list that knows Windows would be able to help.
That
> person definitely wouldn't be me, though.  :-)
> 
> Did you stop the NetWorker client service on the Windows system before 
> you tried to update the servers file?  I wouldn't think you would need 
> to, but that would certainly be something to try.

I'm not (yet) trying to update the servers file, I am trying to copy the 
current one to a new name, as a backup. You don't need to stop the service to 
do that (at least, when I do it locally, you don't need to stop the service to 
make a copy of the file in the same location).

I've tried everything from doing it programmatically using Powershell, to doing 
a standard copy command from the shell. No joy.

Z:\>COPY \\dctrvmw002\C$\"Program Files\Legato\nsr\res\servers" 
\\dctrvmw002\C$\"Program Files\Legato\nsr\res\servers.TST"
\\dctrvmw002\C$\Program Files\Legato\nsr\res\servers Access is denied.
        0 file(s) copied.

If I log onto that particular server's console, I can make as many copies of 
that file as I like.
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