XP Backup - All Network Devices/Files Greyed Out

I have been running XP Backup for several years. It has been backing up My
Documents from several XP and Vista boxes on my network. I did a Full backup
and then Incremental backups each night. Every few months I redo the Full
backup and restart the process.

This week I added a new box to the network, went to XP backup to change
folders that were being backed up. Well, much to my surprise backup could
not longer see any of the devices on the network. All network computers are
greyed out and you cannot even open them to see the drives, folders, etc.

All of the folders to be backed up are shared and can be seen for the system
running backup.

I have not been able to find any solutions to this problem. Help.

smlunatick
Fri Mar 14 07:11:40 PDT 2008

On Mar 11, 3:54=A0pm, dnr <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have been running XP Backup for several years. =A0It has been backing up=
My
> Documents from several XP and Vista boxes on my network. =A0I did a Full b=
ackup
> and then Incremental backups each night. =A0Every few months I redo the Fu=
ll
> backup and restart the process.
>
> This week I added a new box to the network, went to XP backup to change
> folders that were being backed up. =A0Well, much to my surprise backup cou=
ld
> not longer see any of the devices on the network. =A0All network computers=
are
> greyed out and you cannot even open them to see the drives, folders, etc.
>
> All of the folders to be backed up are shared and can be seen for the syst=
em
> running backup.
>
> I have not been able to find any solutions to this problem. =A0Help.

Xp's backup has always been extremely limited.

Are the drives that you need to backup mapped to the PC controlling
the backup?

dnr
Sat Mar 15 08:53:01 PDT 2008

No, the drives themselves are not mapped, but it has been working for years
without drive mapping. All systems have the same admin user, same password
and all permissions are set.

"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Mar 11, 3:54 pm, dnr <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I have been running XP Backup for several years. It has been backing up My
> > Documents from several XP and Vista boxes on my network. I did a Full backup
> > and then Incremental backups each night. Every few months I redo the Full
> > backup and restart the process.
> >
> > This week I added a new box to the network, went to XP backup to change
> > folders that were being backed up. Well, much to my surprise backup could
> > not longer see any of the devices on the network. All network computers are
> > greyed out and you cannot even open them to see the drives, folders, etc.
> >
> > All of the folders to be backed up are shared and can be seen for the system
> > running backup.
> >
> > I have not been able to find any solutions to this problem. Help.
>
> Xp's backup has always been extremely limited.
>
> Are the drives that you need to backup mapped to the PC controlling
> the backup?
>

smlunatick
Mon Mar 17 07:47:36 PDT 2008

On Mar 15, 10:53=A0am, dnr <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> No, the drives themselves are not mapped, but it has been working for year=
s
> without drive mapping. =A0All systems have the same admin user, same passw=
ord
> and all permissions are set.
>
>
>
> "smlunatick" wrote:
> > On Mar 11, 3:54 pm, dnr <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > I have been running XP Backup for several years. =A0It has been backin=
g up My
> > > Documents from several XP and Vista boxes on my network. =A0I did a Fu=
ll backup
> > > and then Incremental backups each night. =A0Every few months I redo th=
e Full
> > > backup and restart the process.
>
> > > This week I added a new box to the network, went to XP backup to chang=
e
> > > folders that were being backed up. =A0Well, much to my surprise backup=
could
> > > not longer see any of the devices on the network. =A0All network compu=
ters are
> > > greyed out and you cannot even open them to see the drives, folders, e=
tc.
>
> > > All of the folders to be backed up are shared and can be seen for the =
system
> > > running backup.
>
> > > I have not been able to find any solutions to this problem. =A0Help.
>
> > Xp's backup has always been extremely limited.
>
> > Are the drives that you need to backup mapped to the PC controlling
> > the backup?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Then there could be an update that blocked this??? Or this is blocked
by firewall software or anti-virus system. You might want to try with
one "mapped" drive, or IP address, as a test.