Windows credentials passed to FMP?

[Jeremy Hodge]

Hi everyone,

I have FileMaker Server authenticate against Active Directory. The users have to enter their logon credentials when they log in to FileMaker. If I close FMP, open it, and log in with my admin credentials, it still acts as though a read-only user is logged in. Are the Windows login credentials automatically passed to FMP despite what you enter when logging in to a database? Is there a way around this or is it by design?

Thanks in advance,

Jeremy

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Be sure there are no auto-enter credentials. Also hold down Shift key when accessing the system to force a credentials log-in.

Steven

[Jeremy Hodge]

The PC's that this is happening to do automatically login to windows. Is this the only reason? Is there any way around this because I would much rather have these PC's automatically log in.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Auto-enter credentials for the FileMaker databases, not the network. Just check that there aren't any auto log-in credentials in the files.

Steven

[Jeremy Hodge]

Originally that is what I thought but after some testing, it seems to be passing the Windows login credentials to the databases.

When our "main" database is opened, a script is triggered that opens several other databases, but there is no 'Login using:' account specified in the file options. I would expect that the account that was used to login to the original database should be passed throughout the script to verify their appropriate access to each database specified.

Here is an example:

On my PC, I log into Windows with an account that also has FMP admin privileges. When I log in to FMS I am prompted to enter my username and password. Whether I enter my admin user/pass or any read-only user/pass, I still have admin access.

The same works oppositely if I load FMP from a PC that is using a read-only windows account.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Edited May 11, 2010 by Guest