To overcome this problem (as Bill said) you have to logon with the user that has the CIFS mount permanently and lock your server (do not logoff with that account). This way the schedule will work. Yiannakis
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Scheduled backups won't find paths that manual/GUI backups do TSM Server 5.3.15 TSM Client - Windows V5.3.0.15 - Windows 2003 Server SP1 This client is connected to our EMC Celerra NAS. It is setup to perform the backups, web-interface, etc. The mounts are CIFS, however we have tried doing standard "drive letter" mounts. Here is the problem. The Windows GUI can see and backup this CIFS mount, no problem. Perfectly happy. TSM scheduled incremental backups fail/do not see the mount. So, we tried a manual backup creating a CMD file and run DSMC. The command we run is: dsmc i -optfile="c:\rose\rose-ots\dsm-ots.opt" -subdir=yes "\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*" If we run this backup, manualy, it works great. If the TSM schedule invokes the backup/CMD, it always errors with: Incremental backup of volume '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*' ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*' failed ANS1063E Invalid path specification We have tried every combination we can think of, we no luck. What are we missing ?
