In the Admin client should INTRAnet, not INTERnet, users be showing in the “Database Users” view under the Server tab?
We have users out on our shop floor, that do not have Notes accounts, accessing a Notes database via IE.
We also have users with Notes Accounts accessing this database via IE as well.
Shouldn’t their be an entries in the Database Users view showing Anonymous accessing this database?
There is nothing on the Internet Users view either.
Subject: Browser users and the Database Users view
Here’s the rather confusing way these Domino Administrator views work.
Any authenticated browser user (Internet or internal) should appear in the Internet Users view, but only if the server is enabled for single-server or multi-server session based authentication. If the server uses simple authentication (default), there is no session persistence and the server doesn’t track connected browser users.
Initially, I would have thought that if a session-authenticated browser user accesses a database, they should show in the Database Users view alongside Notes client users. But in fact this isn’t the case. The Database User view is built from a “show users” query, which just includes Notes client users. An additional issue here, I think, is that browser sessions are not database-specific. That is, Domino records that there is a session open for a particular user/token, but not which DBs have been accessed.
Oh, and Anonymous sessions won’t show in either list, even with session-based authentication.
If you need to find out more detail of what’s being requested (such as for troubleshooting), then turning on Domino web logging is probably the way to go.
Rupert Clayton
Chicago