Configuring authentication for Datacap

You can configure Datacap to use Datacap authentication or to use one of the external authentication methods.

About this task

The authentication system that you choose affects whether you set up and maintain individual users or groups in your Datacap applications. The following five authentication systems are supported:

Datacap authentication (referred to as TMA)
Windows Active Directory (referred to as ADSI)
Windows Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (referred to as ADLDS)
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (referred to as LDAP)
Low-Level Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (referred to as LLLDAP)
Important: For Datacap Navigator authentication, you can use ADSI (password required), ADLDS, LDAP (password required), and LLLDAP. Datacap Navigator does not support LDAP and ADSI authentication using Windows account credentials.

Note:

LLLDAP can be domain independent as long as the Active Directories are setup to allow searches across domains internally. Create a template to specify the bind user, base domain, user and group search filter, etc. in the authentication template. Then, also create groups in Datacap to match the groups the user belongs to in AD/LDAP directory.

For a planning overview related to domains, Windows accounts, authentication systems, Datacap users, groups, stations, and databases, see Planning your Datacap system.