Registering Server Information
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To specify an Active Directory or LDAP server as an additional authentication device, you must register the information of the server used for authentication. Conduct a connection test as necessary.
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Start the Remote UI. Starting the Remote UI
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Click [Settings/Registration] on the portal page. Remote UI Screen
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Click [User Management] 
[Authentication Management].
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Click [Server Settings] [Edit...].
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Set the authentication server and domain information.
[Use Active Directory]Select the check box when using Active Directory.
[Set Domain List:]Select whether the Active Directory information of the login destination is retrieved automatically or entered manually. To enter it manually, select [Set Manually] and add the domain of the login destination in [Active Directory Management...].
[Use access mode within sites]Select the check box if there are multiple Active Directory servers and you want to assign access priority to the Active Directory located in the same site as the machine. Change the settings for [Timing of Site Information Retrieval:] and [Site Access Range:] as necessary.
[Number of Caches for Service Ticket:]Specify the number of service tickets that the machine can hold. A service ticket is an Active Directory function that acts as a record of a previous login, which reduces the amount of time it takes for the same user to log in next time.
[Use LDAP server]Select the check box when using an LDAP server.
[Period Before Timeout]Specify the time limit for attempting to connect to the authentication server and the time limit for waiting for a response. When [Save authentication information for login users] is enabled, if you cannot log in within the time limit specified here, login is attempted using the authentication information saved in the cache.
[Default Domain of Login Destination:]Specify the domain that has connection priority.
Manually specifying the Active Directory domain
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Select the check box for [Use Active Directory] and select [Set Manually] for [Set Domain List:].
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Click [Active Directory Management...]
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Click [Add Domain...].
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Enter the necessary information.
 [Domain Name:]Enter the domain name of the Active Directory that is the login destination (Example: company.domain.com).
[NetBIOS Name]Enter the NetBIOS domain name (Example: company).
[Primary Host Name:] / [Secondary Host Name:]Enter the host name of the Active Directory server (Example: ad-server1). When using a secondary server, specify the name in [Secondary Host Name:].
[User Name:] / [Password:]Enter the user name and password to use for accessing and searching the Active Directory server.
[Card ID (IC Card Authentication)] / [Verification Value (IC Card Authentication):] / [PIN (IC Card Authentication):]When using IC card authentication, specify the data fields (attribute names) for the card ID, validity value (number of reissues), and PIN.
[Login Name:] / [Displayed As] / [E-Mail Address]Specify the data fields (attribute names) for the login name, display name, and e-mail address of each user account on the Active Directory server (Example: sAMAccountName, cn, mail).
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Click [Connection Test] to confirm that connection is possible, and then click [Add].
 To edit server information
Click [Edit] for the server information that you want to edit, make the necessary changes, and click [Update].
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Registering LDAP server information
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Select the check box for [Use LDAP server] and click [LDAP Server Management...]
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Click [Add Server...].
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Enter the LDAP server information.
 [Server Name]Enter the name for the LDAP server. The name "localhost" cannot be used. The server name may not include spaces.
[Primary Address]Enter the IP address or host name of the LDAP server (Example: ldap.example.com). The loopback address (127.0.0.1) cannot be used.
[Port:]Enter the port number used for communicating with the LDAP server. Use the same setting that is configured on the server. If you do not enter a number, it is automatically set to "636" when the check box is selected for [Use TLS], or it is set to "389" when the check box is cleared.
[Secondary Address:] / [Port:]When using a secondary server in your environment, enter the IP address and the port number.
[Comments]Enter a description or note as necessary.
[Use TLS]Select the check box when using TLS encryption for communications with the LDAP server.
[Use authentication information]Clear the check box to allow anonymous access to the LDAP server, only if the LDAP server is set to allow anonymous access. When using the user name and password for authentication, select the check box and enter values for [User Name:] and [Password:].
 [Starting Point for Search:]Specify the location (level) to search for user information when LDAP server authentication is performed.
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Specify how to set the attribute names and domain name.
 [User Name (Keyboard Authentication):]Specify the LDAP data field (attribute name) for the user name on the LDAP server (Example: uid).
[Card ID (IC Card Authentication)] / [Verification Value (IC Card Authentication):] / [PIN (IC Card Authentication):]When using IC card authentication, specify the LDAP data fields (attribute names) for the card ID, validity value (number of reissues), and PIN.
[Login Name:] / [Display Name] / [E-Mail Address]Specify the LDAP data fields (attribute names) for the login name, display name, and e-mail address of each user account on the LDAP server (Example: uid, cn, mail).
[Specify the domain name] / [Specify the attribute name for domain name acquisition]Select how to set the domain name of the login destination. To specify the domain name directly, select [Specify the domain name] and enter the domain name. To specify an LDAP data field (attribute name) from which to acquire the domain name on the LDAP server, select [Specify the attribute name for domain name acquisition] and enter the attribute name (Example: dc).
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Click [Connection Test] to confirm that connection is possible, and then click [Add].
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To edit server information
Click [Edit] for the server information that you want to edit, make the necessary changes, and click [Update].
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Enter the user information and set the privileges.
[Save authentication information for login users]Select the check box to save the authentication information of users who log in via the control panel. Select the [Save user information when using keyboard authentication] check box to save the information of users who log in using keyboard authentication to the cache. After the settings are configured, the saved authentication information can be used for login, even if the machine is unable to connect to the server. Change the [Retention Period:] setting as necessary.
[User Attribute to Browse:]Enter the data field (attribute name) on the referenced server that is used to determine user privileges (roles). Normally, you can use the preset value of "memberOf", which indicates the group that the user belongs to.
[Retrieve role name to apply from [User Attribute to Browse]]Select the check box to use the character string registered in the data field on the server specified in [User Attribute to Browse:] for the role name. Before configuring, check the role names that can be selected on the machine, and register them on the server.
[Conditions]You can set the conditions that determine user privileges. The conditions below are applied in the order that they are listed.
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[Search Criteria]
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Select the search criteria for [Character String].
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[Character String]
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Enter the character string that is registered to the attribute specified in [User Attribute to Browse:]. To set the privileges based on the group that user belongs to, enter the group name.
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[Role]
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Select the privileges that apply to users who match the criteria.
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The [Conditions] settings when using Active Directory servers
"Canon Peripheral Admins" is set in advance as the Administrator user group. Assign different privileges to the other groups created on the server.
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Click [Update].
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Restart the machine. Restarting the Machine