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Windows Directory Overview

User directory connections can be set up with any of the following WinNT implementations:

In order for the Policy Server to connect to your WinNT domain, it must meet the following requirements:

The Policy Server authenticates against WinNT and can authorize users based on their individual identities and group membership.

When authenticating against a WinNT namespace, the Policy Server passes user credentials to WinNT for authentication. The credentials are the user's WinNT user name and password. In a SiteMinder environment, where multiple WinNT namespaces are defined, user authentication is faster if the user name supplied to SiteMinder includes the domain name (i.e. domain\username). In that case, SiteMinder skips all WinNT namespaces that do not match the specified domain name.

WinNT user names and passwords can be used as credentials.

Note: To authenticate users against a WinNT domain, the Policy Server must run on WinNT.


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