topic Reports access to External users in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Reports-access-to-External-users/m-p/943557#M1295137 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Everyone,</P><P></P><P>Greetings of the day.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>I want to provide Qlikview reports access to external users.</STRONG></P><P></P><P>Currently we are providing access to users using NTFS authentication for both internal and external users.We are adding the external users into the active directory list and providing the access to them(Which is not best practice as per company point of view).Also creating the other active directory for external users is also not best practice(am not sure how to create <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P></P><P>Now we want a solution without adding the external user in the active directory to access the reports. I have seen some thing about DMS authentication.</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I need some one help how to apply NTFS authentication for internal users and DMS authentication for external users.(<STRONG>Correct me if am wrong).</STRONG></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><STRONG>Qlikview setup : </STRONG></SPAN>Cluster environment,windows server 2008 and Qlikview Enterprice Edition,Qlikview 11.2 SR6</P><P></P><P>More thanks,</P><P>Dhanu</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT dhanu_today 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Reports access to External users https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Reports-access-to-External-users/m-p/943557#M1295137 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Everyone,</P><P></P><P>Greetings of the day.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>I want to provide Qlikview reports access to external users.</STRONG></P><P></P><P>Currently we are providing access to users using NTFS authentication for both internal and external users.We are adding the external users into the active directory list and providing the access to them(Which is not best practice as per company point of view).Also creating the other active directory for external users is also not best practice(am not sure how to create <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P></P><P>Now we want a solution without adding the external user in the active directory to access the reports. I have seen some thing about DMS authentication.</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I need some one help how to apply NTFS authentication for internal users and DMS authentication for external users.(<STRONG>Correct me if am wrong).</STRONG></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><STRONG>Qlikview setup : </STRONG></SPAN>Cluster environment,windows server 2008 and Qlikview Enterprice Edition,Qlikview 11.2 SR6</P><P></P><P>More thanks,</P><P>Dhanu</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Reports-access-to-External-users/m-p/943557#M1295137 dhanu_today 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z