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Adding Users to a NerveCenter Installed on a Windows NT Workstation or Server

This section describes how to add users to NerveCenter groups if you install NerveCenter on a Windows NT workstation or server. If NerveCenter is installed instead on a Windows NT domain controller, see Adding Users to a NerveCenter Installed on a Windows NT Domain Controller.

Use the following guidelines when adding users to groups:

Remember, once you add users to a group, they must log out and log back in for changes to take effect.

 
  To add users to the local groups:

 
  To create global groups that are members of the local groups:

  1. On the primary domain controller, create one more global groups with the following advanced user rights:
  2. Use Windows NT User Manager for Domains to add your users to one of the two global groups.
  3. Then add these global groups as members of the NerveCenter Admins and NerveCenter Users groups on each local machine that is running a NerveCenter Server.

    Instead of global groups, you could add each of your users to the groups on each of the local machines manually. However, for convenience, we recommend using the global groups.

 
  If some of your users are on another domain, follow these additional steps:

  1. Add each user to one of the NerveCenter global groups on the domain to which the NerveCenter Server belongs.

    Doing this ensures that those users have the correct advanced user rights.

  2. Tell your users to specify their domain along with their user IDs whenever NerveCenter prompts them for their user ID.

The NerveCenter Server authenticates users first by evaluating which group they belong to and then by evaluating the validity of their Windows NT user ID and password.


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This file was last updated on 10 October 2000