Authentication Options

When JobServer.NET is installed, it uses the built-in Windows Authentication to define who can login to the management application. Because of this, the behavior changes slightly based on whether or not the machine the JobServer service is installed on is a standalone machine, or if it is a member of an Active Directory network. In either of these cases, by default you would need to use an account with administrator account level privileges to login to the manager application.

There may be situation where you want to use different accounts for logging into the management application, who are not members of the local or an Active Directory administrators group. When you want to allow an account to have the ability to login to the management application, you would need to create a new group with a specific name called JobServer_Edit and then assign the accounts that should have access, as members of this new group. For a stand-alone machine that is not part of Active Directory, you can just create this group on the local machine and assign the local accounts that should have access to it. For a machine that is a member of an Active Directory domain, then you create the group in the domain in which you want to assign the members from. Then add the individual accounts in the domain to the new group domain.