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Creating sites for outside clients?

zanity84 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:59:30 GMT

Hello,I currently have Alfresco 4.0.e community installed as a test server to see if we can start integrating it more in our company. Currently, I have it set up for Active Directory authentication, and domain users are easily able to access and create sites. My main intention is to replace our curr

Re: Creating sites for outside clients?

billerby — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:16:22 GMT

If you are chaning your authentication subsystems to use both AlfrescoNTLM and AD, you can always create the external user accounts directly in Alfresco as an administrator. That is, your domain users are synched from your AD and the other user accounts you will handle inside Alfresco. This should be a straightforward approach.

Regards
/Erik

Re: Creating sites for outside clients?

zanity84 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:06:41 GMT

Right on, thank you for the reply.

I remember seeing the authentication chain in alfresco-global.properties. I'm assuming it will take the entered credentials and compare them to each entity within the chain, yes? Would it matter what order I put them in? Thanks again,