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nikhilgarg
Specialist II
Specialist II

what is Directory Service connector and why it is used for ?

Hey,

Can anyone tell me what is Directory Service connector and why it is used for ?

thanks

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giakoum
Partner - Master II
Partner - Master II

For users and access rights. If you use windows authentication for example (the most common option), you need to connect QlikView to the domain controller so that authentication can take place.

giakoum
Partner - Master II
Partner - Master II

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Peter_Cammaert
Partner - Champion III
Partner - Champion III

It's even simpler: the DSC is used by almost every other QV service to lookup information about users (group membership, emails, UID's, FullNames and stuff). Authentication has happened earlier on, and on average isn't done by the QV services at all but by Windows.

There is a good explanation of the DSC functions in the QlikView Server Reference Manual - Ch 6.5

nikhilgarg
Specialist II
Specialist II
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Hey,

If i am not wrong then after authentication , there comes authorisation. So here comes DSC to see whether a person is authorise to see a particular qvw or not. Is it so ??

Thanks

nikhilgarg
Specialist II
Specialist II
Author

Hey,

If i am not wrong then after authentication , there comes authorisation. So here comes DSC to see whether a person is authorise to see a particular qvw or not. Is it so ??

Thanks

Peter_Cammaert
Partner - Champion III
Partner - Champion III

Not really. Authorizations are either stored in NTFS ACLs or in .pgo files. Access may also be regulated by the SectionAccess NTNAME field if you do use SectionAccess. The QVS will simply look up the ID of the person at the door in these sources, and grant access or not.

IMHO, DSC has nothing to do with authorizations either.

Peter

nikhilgarg
Specialist II
Specialist II
Author

Ohk, so should i assume that DSC is used to fetch information regarding the Users.

Allows QlikView to connect to different user repositories. If yes then what can be these repositories ?


thanks

Peter_Cammaert
Partner - Champion III
Partner - Champion III

Indeed, that's what I said.

Expand the QMC->System->Setup->Directory Service Connectors->DSC@servername tree. Those are the different repositories that the QV DSC can query through a properly configured DSP. Click Help at the top right for details about each different Directory Service Provider.

AFAIK a SBE version of QlikView server can only configure Active and local directories.