1.2           Administrating User Accounts

To access the Engineering Base database, every user must be a member of the local Engineering Base group on the server computer. The Engineering Base group is automatically created during the installation. The installation also creates a shared folder with the name Engineering Base Transfer with full access for all members of the Engineering Base group.

·            If you are working in a Domain

Add the users to the local Engineering Base group on the server computer.

·            If you are working in a Windows Workgroup

Create the remote users with identical login names and passwords on the server computer. Add these users to the local Engineering Base group on the server computer.

 If a user is not registered in an Engineering Base user group for Windows, then some features will not work correctly, like, for example, the export of worksheets to Excel and CSV. When starting Engineering Base, a message will be displayed.

If the server is a domain controller, with Windows 2003 SP2, for remote access to the server, it is required to add all users from the local Engineering Base group also to the Distributed COM Users group. Administrator rights on the server are required to add the users.

To add users to the local Distributed COM Users group

1.      From the Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, then Computer Management.

2.      Expand Local Users and Groups and then click Groups.

3.      In the right pane, click Distributed COM Users.

4.      On the shortcut menu, click Add to Group.

This opens the Distributed COM Users Properties dialog.

5.      Click Add to add users to the group.

After adding the users to the group, accessing the Engineering Base database on the server should be possible.