If you'd like to use different accounts, so that each computer (user) is the sole owner of his backed up files, this is also possible. Trying to restore such files from another computer (this is called a guest restore in CrashPlan) will require the user to enter the owner's password.

[[Open_Terminal_as_root|Open a terminal window as root]] and edit the following XML configuration file in your favorite text editor.

nano -w /usr/local/crashplan/conf/my.service.xml

'''ATTENTION the above changes are sometimes undone during crashplan updates, you have to repeat above steps to repair connectivity !!!!!'''

This example will show how to reconfigure the CrashPlan Desktop installation on a Windows PC to talk to the CrashPlan Engine instance running on your HDA.