Vista Backup Needs Password To Access Network Drive

[Rob]

Hello:

I am logged on as adminsitrator and am trying to configure Vista's native
backup utility to backup to an attached storage drive on a two PC network. I
can find and access drive fully via Windows Explorer with no issues.

When configuring backup, after selecting network drive I am challenged to
enter a user name and password. I do not have a password associated with my
admin account. I have also tried with (i) UAC turned off, and (ii)
specifically launching backup in "Administrator" mode, but am still being
challenged.

Can someone please explain this challenge, and how to turn it off or satisfy
it?

Thank you for your time and expertise.

 

[KiwiGuy]

I have the same issue. Two PCs, an HP Pavillion desktop with an external HP
PersonalMedia USB drive set up as a network share, and an HP DV6000 laptop,
both running Vista Home Premium. I am trying to configure the Vista Backup
Utility on the laptop to use the shared drive on the desktop and encounter
the same user ID/password challenge. Neither machine has password controls
on the user accounts.

The laptop can see the network drive and read/write to it quite happily with
any other program.

Interestingly my wife's laptop is a Dell Inspiron E1505 running XP MCE and
the NTBackup utility will connect to the network share.

I've been scanning the other posts in this forum and they seem to be related
to using NAS boxes. However, it seems very obvious that it's the same issue
and it's using Vista Backup over a network.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Callum