Authentication tab

Settings on this tab allow you to enable and configure authentication settings for the component.

Option Description
Authentication Type Choose the authentication method to be used:
  • None — No authentication method will be used.
  • Windows — Select this option to prompt the user for their Windows user name, domain, and password. After you select this option, configure the Windows and User Info Lookup options.
  • Netware — Select this option to use NetWare authentication.
  • Custom Script — Administrator defines prompts for authentication for a custom application. After you select this option, configure the Custom Script and options.
Windows Windows authentication authenticates users using their Windows domain user name. In the Domain box, specify the default domain for authenticating users.

Enter only the domain name without the top-level domain designator (.com, .net, or .org). For example, If the user is mydomain/user1 (or user1@domain.com in UPN format), the domain should be “mydomain”, not “mydomain.com”.

Netware This authentication method prompts the user for a NetWare user name, password, context and tree.
  • NDS Tree — Enter the default NDS tree.
  • NDS Context — Enter the default NDS context.
Custom Script When Custom is selected for Authentication Type, the administrator defines prompts that are displayed to the user. An event is sent to the server when a user logs in. The administrator must provide the .NET plug-in DLL that responds to the event.
  • Script File Path — This is the path to script that contains the code to respond to form and field events. You can click the browse button (...) to locate a Visual Basic Script (.vbs) file containing an existing script.
  • Edit Script Code — Click this button to create or edit a script. A sample custom script is available with this component. For details about the code editor window and the object model, click the Help button button in the code editor to refer to the Canon MEAP Web Scripting documentation.
  • Prompts — Click this button to configure prompts that collect authentication information for users.
User Info Lookup Select the Use LDAP search to retrieve email check box to have the server look up the email address and other attributes of the authenticated user on a designated LDAP server. Click the Configure button to configure the LDAP settings in the LDAP Lookup Settings dialog box.
When Windows authentication is selected as the Authentication Type, the email address is retrieved automatically as part of the authentication and as a result an LDAP search is not required if only the email address is needed.

For information about specifying the LDAP server settings, see LDAP Lookup Settings dialog box.