Rick, Start a dsm, dsmc or dsmj session from the client so you can set the password. You should only need to do this once.
Good luck, Jim Schneider -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Harderwijk Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS2050E message Hi, I just started at a new company and for the moment they are still running TSM. One of the clients on Windows 2000 Server SP4 (5.3.4.0) did not backup last night; the message I got in the errorlog was '08/27/2007 08:04:53 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt because the process is running in the background.'. I checked the dsm.opt and confirmed that the option PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is set. I suspect that the problem stems from the fact that the backup is started through a batchfile using the Windows Task Scheduler instead of through the TSM Scheduler service (which is not installed) for some reason not yet known to me. Am I correct in my observation and is there any workaround - as this problem will most likely come back as soon as the password expires again. Cheers, Rick Harderwijk
