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smpSmith
Level 3
12 years ago

Status code 160 - authentication failed

I'm having trouble determining why one of the catalog backup jobs fails with code 160. The path to save the DR file is specified as \\server\share\path and the login as domain\userID and pw. I can ...
  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    12 years ago

    That really shouldnt have made any difference - it should just write to a UNC path and hence the authentication issue

    If changing the path made it work then it is down to the servers setup and not the fact that one had NBU installed and one did not

    If Windows 2008 then it is generally caused by a firewall rule or UAC or similar preventing some sort of communications or rights issue