The local user I setup has not been added to any administrative groups, there is no domain to choose from leaving me with just local accounts, so it is just a new local account. I added the user to the System Manager group though so that it could be used to set licenses.

I am able to assign licenses when RPD directly into the server, I am trying to enable another user to assign licenses.

Hi Chad,

My point is, how are you adding that user to the named user group in the first place? Who are you signed in as at that point? Or can that only happen when you are RPD'd into the Server as well? If there's no domain (and therefore no domain users), yeah, you may have to be local on the machine. 

It is not a named user for Laserfiche, just a system manager. The named license is assigned to the Repository User account they are signing into the repository with.

This is where I am confused, why do we need an additional Windows account and even if I create it, I am still told that it is not a system manager after making it a system manager.

The only reason you need an additional account is if you cannot use an account that is a member of the local administrators group (windows) on the machine where the Lf Server is installed. This user has to be outside of repository security because these are server-wide operations at a level above that of the repository. For example, the same domain (windows) user would be used to do operations such as create or delete repositories - obviously that can't be a user within the repository itself as it might not even exist yet. Named user assignment is the one thing that is a bit ambiguous as you place it on a repository user (a repository action) but the act of actually assigning a named user slot to a specific repository/repository user is at the Lf Server level, hence needing to be a system manager.

My point above is that you don't NEED to create a separate (windows) user for it, if you've already got a local admin account (a domain account that is a member of the local admin group on the machine the Lf Server is installed on). You can just use that one if so. The difference is that the desktop admin can see that you are logged into Windows as that account and automatically use it, the web admin tools cannot so you get prompted to provide the credentials. Since you already showed that you are a system manager account by being able to add another account into the system manager list in the desktop administration console (picking up your credentials from your windows log-in), you shouldn't even need the other account and just use whatever account you were using to do that operation.