Setting Up a Site Server Authentication Group

When you set up a Site Server authentication group, you use the Membership Directory Manager snap-in to create the group and associate the group with a chat member account. This allows you to apply Site Server authentication methods to chat users who want to join a persistent channel.

Important Site Server Active User Object (AUO) software must be installed on the chat server. AUO allows the chat server to use a centralized Site Server authentication database.

To set up a Site Server authentication group

  1. From the Start menu, choose Programs, choose Microsoft Site Server, choose Administration, and then choose Site Server Service Admin (MMC).
  2. Select Membership Directory Manager in the left pane.
  3. Log on to the authentication server.
  4. Open the ou=Groups container, and then select ou=NTGroups.
  5. From the Action menu, choose New, and then choose Group.
  6. Use the New Group Wizard to create an authentication group with the same name as the member account you associated with the persistent channel. Add individual chat users or Windows NT groups to the authentication group.

    7. Important The names of the authentication group and member account must be identical.

  7. To associate the group with the member account, select the group in the right pane, and then choose Properties from the Action menu.
  8. Select the Security property sheet, and then choose Add.
  9. From the Show names from menu, select the ou=NTGroups container that contains the authentication group you created in step 6.
  10. From the Available items box, select the authentication group.
  11. Choose Add, and then choose OK.

    12. Note If the group does not appear in the Access control entries box, check the spelling of the name for errors.

  12. Choose OK.

    13. The authentication group is now associated with the chat member account.

Note In the same way, you can associate Site Server authentication groups with the default chat member accounts (Chat Sysop Managers and Chat Sysops) by creating authentication groups with the same names as the default accounts.

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