User`s guide

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.

2.12.7.5 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. 315), under

"Change the compacting task schedule"

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

Recommendations on user accounts

To allow users to access the centralized vaults managed by a storage node, you must ensure that

those users have a right to access the storage node from the network.

If both the users' machines and the machine with the storage node are in one Active Directory

domain, you probably do not need to perform any further steps: all users are typically members of

the Domain Users group and so can access the storage node.

Otherwise, you need to create user accounts on the machine where the storage node is installed. We

recommend creating a separate user account for each user who will access the storage node, so that

the users are able to access only the archives they own.

When creating the accounts, follow these guidelines:

 For users whom you want to act as storage node administrators, add their accounts to the

Administrators group.

 For other users, add their user accounts to the Users group.

Additional right of machine administrators

A user who is a member of the Administrators group on a machine can view and manage any

archives created from that machine in a managed vault—regardless of the type of that user's account

on the storage node.

Example