Users, Passwords, and Security
When you log in to Laserfiche, you are identifying yourself as a particular user account, unique to you. This ensures that you will have access to the information that you should have access to, and not have access to information that you should not have access to.
Authentication
There are several ways that your administrators can allow you to log in to Laserfiche, but all of these methods are collectively referred to as authentication.
The way that you will authenticate to the repository is determined by your administrator, and may differ for different users on the same repository. For instance, one user might log in using Windows Authentication and another might log in using a user name and password. If you aren't sure how to log in to Laserfiche, contact your administrator for help.
Windows Authentication
If your Laserfiche account is configured for Windows Authentication, you can log in using your Windows credentials. In the Laserfiche Windows client, you do not need to provide your Windows user name and password when logging in using Windows Authentication; once you specify that you want to log in using Windows Authentication, Laserfiche can simply identify that you are currently logged in to Windows as that user and allow you to log in to Laserfiche as that user as well. In the Laserfiche web client, depending on the configuration, you may need to type your Windows user name and password (with your Windows user name in the format Domain\UserName), but you will still us the same name and password as you do to log in to Windows, so you do not need to remember an additional user name and password.
Password Authentication
If your Laserfiche account is configured for a Laserfiche or repository user name and password authentication, you will log in using a user name and password specific to Laserfiche.
LDAP Authentication
LDAP refers to other types of directory accounts, such as Novell eDirectory accounts. If your Laserfiche account is configured for LDAP authentication, you will log in using your LDAP user name and password (with your LDAP user name in the format CommonName@ServerProfile). Unlike Windows Authentication, when using LDAP authentication to connect, you will always need to type your user name and password, but like Windows Authentication, this information will always match your current LDAP information, so you do not need to remember an additional user name and password.
Security
Security refers to the whole collection of options that Laserfiche administrators can use to determine what users should have access to what information in the repository. Security can restrict what you can see as well as what actions you can perform. For instance, one user may be able to open a document and another may not, or one user may be able to see a particular field and another may not. In addition, even if you can see a document, you may not be able to perform all possible actions on it: for instance, you might be able to open a document but not rearrange its pages, or you might be able to rearrange its pages but not delete it.
Because security can prevent you from performing certain actions, if an instruction in this guide appears to be impossible because a particular command is unavailable or grayed out, it may be that you do not have sufficient rights to perform that action. If you think this may be the case and you need to perform an action that is unavailable to you, you can contact your administrator for more information.
