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Pre-populate weblink login with domain string

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Updated October 17, 2014

asked on October 15, 2014

We have a customer who has setup the Public Portal within their DMZ. All of the users accessing the portal page will be domain users, however the majority of the users will be accessing the page from outside the domain. The customer has requested a way to populate the username field with the domain information, so that the end user only has to enter their domain username. Is there a way to have the domain pre-populated?

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replied on October 16, 2014

If you set up WebLink to use Windows authentication and the user doesn't specify a domain, WebLink will use the domain of the user the process is running as (i.e. the app pool account). So if you configure your app pool to use a domain account then your users won't have to specify a domain.

If WebLink is in the DMZ, this might not be possible. But if it's not possible to have a process run as a domain account, I don't think your authentication scheme will work. This question is about Web Access but WebLink authenticates the same way.

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replied on October 17, 2014

Brain,

Thanks for the reply. That is a big help to know that it can be passed, even though it may not work due to the DMZ.

Cheers!

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replied on October 17, 2014

Brian,

Just as an update, the customer changed the account to the app pool for WebLink to the same user account used by the Laserfiche Server Service (admin account) and this now works. Users can log in to WebLink using their username without the domain string.

Thanks again!

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replied on October 17, 2014

Great! Glad it worked.

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