A required privilege is not held by the client

[elindydotcom]

I'm trying to backup a set of files located on a remote computer. I've mapped a drive to the remote computer (drive X and I can now read and write to the directory and files I want to back up. However, when I run my backup software, I get an error message stating "A required privilege is not held by the client" whenever it tries to backup the files on drive X: (the remote drive). I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - I assume it's a permissions thing but I can already read and write to the files I'm trying to backup so I don't know what else I need to do.

Any help/suggestions appreciated.

-eLindy

PS: The computers are in workgroups, not domains. The computer with the tape drive is in a workgroup called EXE and the one with the remote drive is in a workgroup called WORKGROUP. The user names and passwords being used are the same on each computer on the network.

 

[opm8]

Try changing the permissions on the mapped drive (right click, properties...) to something like "Full access". I don't have a mapped drive in front of me to try it out on but I'm pretty sure that would fix your problem. I'm assuming that the backup program runs under a different user with a reduced set of privileges.

--opm8

 

[elindydotcom]

Actually, the backup program is running with full Administrator rights to the machine on which it's running - that's what makes this error all the more confusing.

I suspect it's something about the way in which the rights are mapped between users in a workgroup but I sure don't know what it is.

Any other ideas definitely will be appreciated.

-eLindy

Quote from opm8:

Try changing the permissions on the mapped drive (right click, properties...) to something like "Full access". I don't have a mapped drive in front of me to try it out on but I'm pretty sure that would fix your problem. I'm assuming that the backup program runs under a different user with a reduced set of privileges.

--opm8