Backup Exec 2010 Issues connecting to network drive without password

[synbios1978]

I have been using Backup Exec 8.5 for the past year or two now and it's worked wonderfully.  I work at a small company where we backup ~10-12 computers to a network share.  It is shared from a mac and we have it setup with guest access to keep permission issues to a minimum while we password protect the backup files themselves.  In version 8.5 this isn't a problem as we point it to the share path and tell it to use the username "guest" with no password.  However, I just got a Windows 7 pc in, and I'm trying to setup the demo of Backup Exec 2010 to ensure there will be no problems with it, and when I go to connect to the network share, it's requiring I have a password to connect to a network drive.  Is there anyway to get around this??  

Thanks!!

[Ben_L_]

Are you trying to connect to the network share with Win 7 or BE 2010?  Also, Win 7 is not a supported OS to install BE2010 on, you'll need to install it on a 2003 server, 2008 server, or Windows XP Professional (SP2 or 3).

[synbios1978]

Ben,

Thanks for the response.  I'm using the Desktop Edition which according to the compatibility list is supported on Windows 7.  I can connect to the network share through Windows without an issue, but when I try to do it through BEDE 2010, I navigate to the network path "//Macserver/drivename/foldername", it requires a username/password to continue to the next screen.

Thanks!

[Ben_L_]

Are you using Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 (BESR) or Backup Exec for Windows Servers 2010 (BEWS)?  BESR 2010 is supported on Windows 7, but BEWS is not.

[synbios1978]

BESR2010.  Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post.

[teiva-boy]

 So when you setup your job properties in BESR, for any network path, you MUST supply credentials to authenticate to the network share to gain read/write access.  There really isnt a way around this.

Just create a new user account on the hosting server, and use that as a generic service account that can write to the directory in question.  

[synbios1978]

Thanks for the info, that seems to work perfectly!!!  I don't know why they added this into the new version, but oh well, it works fine now.

Thanks again!!!

[kqf_chris]

I would like to further add to this question, I have been using BESR 2010 on all of my XP/2003 servers and never had to put in a username/password to save files to the network. The computer just connects to the fileserver and uses the COMPUTER$ account. I installed BESR 2010 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine and am now forced to provide login info. I already have all my security setup on the fileserver to work with the COMPUTER$ accounts of each PC. How can I force BESR to use the computer's account for network access?