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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
• Browsers on Non-PC Platforms – Non-PC platforms such as Linux and Mac can access
resources in a Windows domain through Samba, but do not have the concept of “logging
the PC into the domain” as Windows PCs do. Hence, browsers on these platforms do not
have access to the user’s domain credentials and cannot use them for NTLM.
When a user is not logged into the domain or the browser ca
nnot use their domain credentials,
it will prompt for a name and password to be entered, or will use cached credentials if the user
has previously opted to have it save them.
In all cases, should authentication fail when using the user’s domain credentials (which could
be because the user does not have the privileges necessary to get access) then the browser
will prompt the user to enter a name and password. This allows the user to enter credentials
different from the domain credentials to get access.
Multiple Administrator Support Overview
This section provides an introduction to the Multiple Administrators Support feature. This
section contains the following subsections:
• “What is Multiple Administrators Support?” section on page 1015
• “Benefits” section on page 1015
• “How Does Multiple Administrators Support Work?” section on page 1016
What is Multiple Administrators Support?
The original version of SonicOS Enhanced supported only a single administrator to log on to a
SonicWALL security appliance with full administrative privileges. Additional users can be
granted “limited administrator” access, but only one administrator can have full access to
modify all areas of the SonicOS GUI at one time.
SonicOS Enhanced releases 4.0 and higher provide support for multiple concurrent
administrators. This feature allows for multiple users to log-in with full administrator privileges.
In addition to using the default admin user name, additional administrator usernames can be
created.
Because of the potential for conflicts caused by multiple administrators making configuration
changes at the same time, only one administrator is allowed to make configuration changes.
The additional administrators are given full access to the GUI, but they cannot make
configuration changes.
Benefits
Multiple Administrators Support provides the following benefits:
• Improved productivity - Allowing multiple administrators to access a SonicWALL security
appliance simultaneously eliminates “auto logout,” a situation that occurs when two
administrators require access to the appliance at the same time and one is automatically
forced out of the system.
• Reduced configuration risk – The new read-only mode allows users to view the current
configuration and status of a SonicWALL security appliance without the risk of making
unintentional changes to the configuration.