Backup Operator in WINXP

[Jim Snively]

I have a four node peer-to-peer network that is not internet connected with
a mix of WINXP Home and Pro and one WIN98 machine. I backup user files on
this network to a CD from a WINXP Home machine. The software I use to do
this reports "access denied" on the Windows and "Progam Files" directories
on the remote XP machines. These messages clog up the backup program's
error log and make it easy to miss a significant error message. I recall
that WINNT had a backup operator that could access these protected
directories, Is there any way to do this in WINXP?

Jim Snively

 

[Steven L Umbach]

For XP Pro computers you could disable simple file sharing and make sure
that the user account doing the backups is either local administrator or in
the backup operators group on the remote XP Pro computers. XP Home computers
can only use simple file sharing so you what you could do is try to give
guest or everyone read permissions to those directories though most likely
there is no need to backup those directories as that is not where you
normally would find data files.. --- Steve

 

[Jim Snively]

Steve,

Thanks for your reply.

The machine I am doing the backup from is an XP Home machine (sys4). Can I
add sys4\jim to the backup operators group on XP Pro system sys2? I am
geting no error messages on the local machine (sys4) and none on the WIN98
machine. Fixing sys2 would eliminate half of the annoying messages. The
backup program is trying to write a flag file in these "access denied"
directories that says not to backup any files from them. Also how do I turn
off simple file sharing on sys2?

Thanks,

Jim Snively

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You could create a user on sys2 with the same logon/password [and there must
be a password] as you use on sys4 and then add it to the backup operators
group on sys2. To disable simple file sharing go to Windows Explorer, select
tools/folder options/view and uncheck the last option for use simple file
sharing. --- Steve