User`s guide

A user who is a member of this group is a management server administrator. Management server

administrators can connect to the management server by using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

Management Console; they have the same management rights on the registered machines as

users with administrative privileges on those machines—regardless of the contents of Acronis

security groups there.

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. 316), under

"Change the compacting task schedule"