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Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring

Last Published: 2017-08-10

Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.2)

Using a default domain with Basic authentication

With only Basic authentication configured, users must provide a domain name when logging on to the Web Access components. For example, a user in domain myDomain with a username of Rogers must specify myDomain\Rogers.

It is possible for IIS and Enterprise Vault to use a default domain for Basic authentication. In this case, users in the default domain do not need to specify a domain name when starting the Web Access components. Users in other domains must still specify a domain name.

Setting up a default domain in IIS

You can set up IIS so that it uses a default domain for Basic authentication. How you do this depends on the version of IIS that you have installed.

Note that the default domain does not work unless you also define it for the Web Access components.

To set up a default domain in IIS 7

Start Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
Expand the Sites container for the Enterprise Vault Web Access computer.
Click the EnterpriseVault folder.
Double-click Authentication in the IIS area at the right.
Ensure that Anonymous Authentication is disabled and Basic Authentication is enabled.
To set the default domain, do the following:
- Right-click Basic Authentication, and then click Edit.
- Enter the name of the domain that contains the majority of the user accounts that will be using the Web Access components.
- Click OK.

Setting up a default domain in the Web Access components

Note that the default domain does not work unless you also define it in IIS.

To set up the Web Access components so that they use the same default authorization domain as you have set up in IIS

Use a text editor to create an initialization file called WebApp.ini, containing the following line:
```
Domain=DomainName
```
Where DomainName is the name of the domain that you have specified in IIS for Basic authentication. Note that entries in this file are case-sensitive.
For example, to use a domain called "myDomain", the line to use is as follows:
```
Domain=myDomain
```
Save the file in the Enterprise Vault program folder, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault, on the computer that runs the Web Access components.