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Windows User properties can be used to enable the option to use Operating System users in your Movicon project. This will also allow you to associate user levels to the O.S. user groups.
To change the Windows Users properties, select the "Users And User Groups" group from the Project Explorer window and use the Movicon "Properties Window".
When enabling Windows Users in the project with the "Guest" user in the PC's local protection settings enabled, users that do not belong to the dominion will be granted access with "Guest" user credentials within Movicon. However, in certain cases User and Password entry is not requested when logging on from WebClient to a Server as logon is done automatically using the Guest user rights. This also applies to Network Client logons. Project commands protected by passwords are also subject to this functionality, therefore if user logon is invalid , Movicon will nevertheless grant access with Guest user rights.
For further information about this Windows feature go to link
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;180548&x=13&y=10
Movicon provides you with the possibility to share users from the O.S. domain or from a Windows Server in the applied project.
In this way, when the password management is activated, the project will acknowledge and grant access to users inserted and activated from the O.S. domain installed or a Windows server.
Movicon accepts mixed applications, such as users inserted in the project list and users deriving from the domain.
When the "Enable Windows Users" option activates, the domain users are remapped within the project without needing to insert these users on the Movicon project's "Users List". In this way, the domain users will be acknowledged by Movicon in runtime. The "Password Level" and the "Access Level" for enabled domain users will be the one preconfigured according to which group users belong to, such as Administrators, Users, Guests, as indicated in the properties described below.
However, in cases needing to associate a domain user with a customized "Password Level" or "Access Level", which is different to the one associated to the domain group, it will be necessary to define a user with the same domain user name in the project's users list and leave the password empty. In this way, the user will be able to access using the domain password, but will inherit the "Password Level" and "Access Level" defined in the project user's properties.
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Warning! Movicon is "case sensitive" when managing user names whereas Windows is not. This means that if you insert a user with the same name of a Windows user to allow them to have a custom user level, you must be careful to insert their name by using the right Upper/Lower case chars. For instance, if you insert a user name as "User1" or "user1", Windows accepts both as being the same user, but Movicon will consider them as being two different users. |
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The "Enable Windows Users" is only needed for remapping dominion users within the project with levels and preset access levels according to user type. If the dominion user's name has been inserted in the project user list without a password (as explained above), the user will be automatically given authentication by using their dominion password even though the "Enable Windows Users" option has been disabled. |
Different password levels can be assigned to domain users. This function is available when adding users who have the same userID configured in the primary domain controller, to the Movicon users list. The authentication of a user who has been configured in this way, is carried out by the primary domain controller which controls the validity of the password.
For instance, if a user exists with UserID = "guest" inside the primary domain controller, the user should then be configured in the Movicon project's user list with the same UserID, 'guest' with the password left empty so that the user can be assigned with the level desired. In runtime the user name and password inserted in the Movicon Authentication window are validated by the primary domain controller. This also permits the password expiration to be used with Windows users.
This mechanism is also valid for users configured directly in runtime with the Movicon users editor window.
This property is used for selecting the Password level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Administrators group.
This property is used for selecting the Password level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Users group.
This property is used for selecting the Password level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Guests group.
This property is used for selecting the Access level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Administrators group.
This property is used for selecting the Access level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Users group.
This property is used for selecting the access level to assign to the Operating System Users belonging to the Guests group.
