How to Allow Other Clients Remote Access Rights

Backup clients are preconfigured so that only the client itself can browse or recover its own files. If your company is concerned about security, leave the Remote Access attribute blank, so that only the client itself can recover its backed-up files.

To give other users or machines permission to recover a client's files, enter the user ID and hostname (in the format user@hostname) or netgroup name (if you are using NIS) in the Remote Access attribute in the Clients resource.

When you enable remote access rights, authorized users can view and recover files from other Backup clients from the Backup recover program. In the recover program, change to the client, then browse or recover the files you want.

To restrict permission to execute backup commands (save and savefs) on a client during a scheduled backup, enter a user ID in the Remote User attribute in the Clients resource. When this attribute is blank, the username, by default, is root.