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Configuring Contenta for LDAP on all Contenta Windows Administration clients

An Administration Client is a workstation on which the Content Explorer Client software was installed using the Custom option.

Procedure

  1. Access one of your Contenta Windows Administration Clients.
  2. Start the Windows Registry Editor and navigate to the key
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\XyEnterprise\Content@\3.0\.
  3. Change the value data of the string value named
    XYE_PDM_AUTHENTICATION from INTERNAL to LDAP.
  4. Close the Registry Editor.
  5. From the distr\ActivDir subdirectory of your Contenta_home directory, copy the configuration file xyldap.cfg to the bin\ subdirectory of your Contenta_home directory.
  6. Configure LDAP for your environment and situation. See the following for more information:
    • Configuring your LDAP environment contains a set of configuration tasks you can perform.
    • The xyldap.cfg configuration file contains a self-documented sample file.
    • Settings, default, and description for the xyldap.cfg file for a reference of all the settings in the file.
  7. Copy the file xyauth.dll from one of the following locations to the System\ subdirectory of the Contenta_home directory, overwriting any existing file by that name:
    • If you use Active Directory, copy xyauth.dll from distr\ActivDir\
    • If you do not use Active Directory, copy xyauth.dll from distr\standard\
  8. Restart PcmPortal (the XyEnterprise Contenta Server service).
  9. If you have another Contenta Windows Administration Client setup, access that client and perform the same procedure.