Is the other backup drive another Time Capsule or another network drive.....or.....is the other backup drive a USB or FireWire drive?
If it is another USB or FireWire drive, there is really no need to use Time Machine at all here. Simply let the drive mount on your Mac's desktop and the open the drive.
Backups are in a folder named Backups.backupdb
Open the Backups.backupdb folder and the name of the Mac will appear as another folder
Open that folder to reveal list of folders with different backup dates
Select the date/folder that you want and open it up to reveal Macintosh HD, or whatever the user has named the drive
Keep drilling down through folder levels to find the files that you want
If you are asked for a password early in the process, the user has likely encrypted his backups, and you will need that password to proceed
The same process can be followed even if the backups are on another Time Capsule. Time Machine does not need to be opened.
Open the drive on the Time Capsule.....named "Data".....unless it has been renamed and locate the sparsebundle file for the Mac.
Open the sparsebundle file
That will mount a drive called Time Machine Backups on the desktop
Open Time Machine Backups
Open the Backups.backupdb folder and proceed as above
If you are asked for a password, the user has likely encrypted his backups.