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Windows 2008 x Data Protector: Can not connect to the SCM (Service Control Manager)

I noticed this a while ago but a colleague came to me with this problem. Luckily - and because I have short memory, I documented the process accordingly - which he did not read... anyways.

With windows 2008R2, in order to deploy the client to the server - locally or remotely - one will need to make sure the account used to deploy the agent is in the inet password account list and part of the install server user list. If not it will need to be added as follow.

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd -add youraccount@domain.net

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd.exe -inst_srv_user youraccount@domain.net

Use -list to get a list of users already in the list. If you do not add your account, you will have to use the backup service account to deploy any clients.