topic Re: Custom Directory and AD together in QlikView

Custom Directory and AD together

gainkarthi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Can we use Custom Directory and AD together in a single system?

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:54:55 GMT

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

dde — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:20:55 GMT

Not quite. You can do this on a Single QVS but you would need a seperate Web Server for each Authentication type.

You would have to use DMS authorisation which supports both Custom and AD.

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

danielrozental — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:26:23 GMT

Dave, do you know if there is a reason why they can't both work on a single webserver? Are there any security considerations? It used to work back in QV9

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

Bill_Britt — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:44:47 GMT

I am not sure what Dave is talking about will work either. You can't use any other Directory Service with Custom Directory. This is the only time QVS authenticates the users and it does it throught an XML file that the directory service creates. This has always been the case with Custom users all the way back to version 4.

Bill

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

dde — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:28:56 GMT

I'll bow to your knowledge here Bill. I must admit I hardly use Custom Directory as it doesn't scale; it's only really suitable for small Proof of Concepts. I'm more likely to use HTTP Header or WebTicketing for custom authentication.

Daniel - ignoring that I might have got this one wrong generally you can only have one authentication type per Web Server because it uses a centralised config file.

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

danielrozental — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:49:23 GMT

Dave, I'm not sure if it was by design or by omission, but QV9 did allow you to work with AD and custom users using a single webserver, we had it set like that in a customer's test server and had to change it with QV10.

Re: Custom Directory and AD together

Bill_Britt — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:25:47 GMT

Daniel,

You are correct. There was a bug that would allow it to work. (offen wondered why this wasn't turned into a feature)

Bill