User`s guide

To be able to connect to the management server remotely, an administrator of the management

server must also be a member of the Acronis Remote Users group.

No user—even a member of the Administrators group—can be an administrator of the

management server without being a member of the Acronis Centralized Admins group.

By default, this group includes all members of the Administrators group.

Acronis Remote Users

A user who is a member of this group can connect to the management server remotely by using

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console—provided that the user is also a member of

the Acronis Centralized Admins group.

By default, this group includes all members of the Administrators group.

On a domain controller

If a machine is a domain controller in an Active Directory domain, the names and default contents of

Acronis security groups are different:

• Instead of Acronis Remote Users and Acronis Centralized Admins, the groups are named

DCNAME $ Acronis Remote Users and DCNAME $ Acronis Centralized Admins respectively; here,

DCNAME stands for the NetBIOS name of the domain controller. Each dollar sign is surrounded by

a single space on either side.

• Instead of explicitly including the names of all members of the Administrators group, the

Administrators group itself is included.

Tip: To ensure proper group names, you should install Acronis components in a domain controller after you have

set up the domain controller itself. If the components were installed before you set up the domain controller,

create the groups DCNAME $ Acronis Remote Users and DCNAME $ Acronis Centralized Admins manually, and

then include the members of Acronis Remote Users and Acronis Centralized Admins in the newly created groups.

2.11.7.5. User privileges on a storage node

The scope of a user's privileges on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node depends on the user's

rights on the machine where the storage node is installed.

A regular user, such as a member of the Users group on the storage node, can:

• Create archives in any centralized vault managed by the storage node

• View and manage archives owned by the user

A user who is a member of the Administrators group on the storage node can additionally:

• View and manage any archive in any centralized vault managed by the storage node

• Create centralized vaults to be managed by the storage node—provided that the user is also an

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server administrator

• Re-schedule the compacting task, as described in Operations with storage nodes (p. 317), under

"Change the compacting task schedule"

Users with these additional privileges are also called storage node administrators.