TANDBERG 1D13898.07 About Adding Users, Adding Users Under Local Authentication Adding Groups

About Adding Users

TANDBERG CONTENT SERVER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

Adding Users Under Local Authentication Adding Users Manually Adding Groups

If Local authentication is selected in Site Settings, local users can log in to the Content Server.

Firstly, you need to ensure that local user accounts have been created on the Content Server. You can create local user accounts from the Windows Server administration site in the Administrator Settings menu.

These users then need to be added to the Content Server database by entering their usernames on the Add Users page. Please note that adding local groups is not supported.

Local usernames must be entered in this format: MACHINENAME\user.name:Display Name(optional)

Adding Users or Groups Under Domain or LDAP

Authentication

When Domain or LDAP authentication is selected in Site Settings, LDAP/Active Directory users or groups can log in to the Content Server.

Active Directory users can be added to the Content Server manually or automatically.

Groups need to be added manually. Any users in those groups will then be able to log in without having to be added individually. The user will inherit group privileges from the group they belong to.

LDAP/Active Directory users need to be added manually through the Add Users page before they can log in if:

•Domain or LDAP authentication is selected in Site Settings, and

•Allow Guest Access is selected in Site Settings.

Adding users under Domain authentication:

•Users must be entered in this format: DOMAINNAME\user. name or DOMAINNAME\user.name:Display name

Adding users under LDAP authentication:

•Users must be entered in this format: user.name or user. name:Display name

Adding Users Automatically

All users with valid accounts on the Domain or LDAP server will be added automatically upon login if:

•Domain or LDAP authentication is selected in Site Settings and

•Allow Guest Access is deselected in Site Settings.

Users added automatically will only have privileges to view conferences they are authorized to view (their user role will be User). Administrators can give users special privileges by changing their role to Owner or Administrator).

Groups always need to be added manually through the Add Users page.

LDAP/Active Directory groups must be entered in this format: @group.name

Please note that although a group is added in this format, @group.name, both the group name and its base DN are displayed in the Users page.

When adding a group, all members of that group will be automatically added to the Content Server on login with the privileges you assigned to the group, if Domain or LDAP authentication is selected in Site Settings, and regardless of whether or not Allow Guest Access is selected in Site Settings.

If you add a group with Owner privileges, as members of that group log in to the Content Server, their accounts will be automatically created. The User Role next to their user name in the Users page will appear to be User, but they will have Owner privileges inherited from their group membership.

If you want all members of the group to be Users or Owners, but some members of the group need administrative privileges, you can change the User Role for these members to Admin. The highest user role will be applied.

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NOVEMBER 2008