How to connect workstations to the server (server edition)

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In this topic, I will generally describe what workstations are and how the server handles them.

In handy backup, there are three modules that form the program: Server, Client and Workstation. At the moment, Client is mindlessly merged into the Server, so we may as well treat them as a single module, although we have plans on separating them. Client is a basic GUI of the program, Server handles tasks, settings and all of the necessary configurations, and Workstation does all the actual work with the data.

This holds true for standalone versions, but it only gets interesting for the server edition of the program, where one single server handles several workstations over the network.

Workstation requires the following conditions to successfully connect to the server and handle its tasks:

1. Username. Workstations require the user's name from which they have been run to be the same as the user's name from which the server they are working with have been run.

2. Local administrator's rights. User from which the workstation is being run has to have local admin rights to allow workstation access to the file system.

The combination of two should make the proper work of Handy Backup server and its workstations over the network. It doesn't mean that you have to endanger your network by allowing the service process on all your PCs to run from domain administrator - the user it's been run from doesn't have to be a domain user. I'll provide an example:

On the server PC, we make a user Bob, and install the server from this user. On network PCs, we make user Bob within the system and give it local admin rights, then install workstations from that user. This should make a correct work of Server and Workstations.

There's also a note that you can install workstations from Local System, which will allow any server in the network to connect to it, but since it doesn't give any administrative rights, it will severely cut the workstation's access to data.