I'm trying to run the Windows backup utility from my Vista Home Premium
laptop to network hard drive (external) attached to my desktop which is
running Vista Ultimate. These are just my home machines so i don't use
a password on my user accounts on either location. I have password
protected file sharing turned off on both machines as well. i am set as
administrator on both machines. The issue is that the Windows back up
feature won't allow me to connect from the laptop unless both user
accounts have a password! i can access the network drive every other
way and read/write to it all day long, just not through the backup
feature. Its annoying because i don't like having passwords on my user
accounts at home.

Can anyone think of a solution to this?

Murphy


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dustinfrank

Hello Dustin,

If you haven't already, I suggest you see this which explains why a password
is needed for the backup utility in Vista.

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...27/458871.aspx

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Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"dustinfrank" wrote in message
...

I'm trying to run the Windows backup utility from my Vista Home Premium
laptop to network hard drive (external) attached to my desktop which is
running Vista Ultimate. These are just my home machines so i don't use
a password on my user accounts on either location. I have password
protected file sharing turned off on both machines as well. i am set as
administrator on both machines. The issue is that the Windows back up
feature won't allow me to connect from the laptop unless both user
accounts have a password! i can access the network drive every other
way and read/write to it all day long, just not through the backup
feature. Its annoying because i don't like having passwords on my user
accounts at home.

Can anyone think of a solution to this?

Murphy


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dustinfrank

Hi Eric,

Thanks, i hadn't seen that. It does explain why i'm prompted for username
and password, but it doesn't explain why i have to have a password on the
user accounts. I don't mind setting up the credentials in the auto-backup
settings, but i don't have passwords on either machine so i don't understand
why the password portion is mandatory. Also, does this only affect the
automatic backup function?

"Eric Cross [MVP]" wrote:

Hello Dustin,

If you haven't already, I suggest you see this which explains why a password
is needed for the backup utility in Vista.

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...27/458871.aspx

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"dustinfrank" wrote in message
...

I'm trying to run the Windows backup utility from my Vista Home Premium
laptop to network hard drive (external) attached to my desktop which is
running Vista Ultimate. These are just my home machines so i don't use
a password on my user accounts on either location. I have password
protected file sharing turned off on both machines as well. i am set as
administrator on both machines. The issue is that the Windows back up
feature won't allow me to connect from the laptop unless both user
accounts have a password! i can access the network drive every other
way and read/write to it all day long, just not through the backup
feature. Its annoying because i don't like having passwords on my user
accounts at home.

Can anyone think of a solution to this?

Murphy


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dustinfrank