VideoSpider Installation Guide
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3. THE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE IN DETAIL
This chapter is intended to provide deeper insight view of various installation steps outlined in the
previous chapter. The explanations given here are often related to operating system components and their
usage, rather than Spider software. However, it is important to remember that Spider software is working
in
tight cooperation
with operating system and the overall success of installing a working Spider system
depends on how precisely these instructions were followed.
3.1 Setting up user accounts and access rights
Before the users actually begin working with Spider, the
Spider Operator
in charge of the server
installation needs to create an account with administrative privileges for him/herself and one or more
accounts for other
Spider Users
with regular privileges. Except for some unusual circumstances, it is
not
recommended
to use the built-in
Administrator
account to operate the Spider system. This introduces an
even greater security risk in the networked environment.
The following two sections mostly concern the case of the network-enabled Spider system where one or
more Spider servers must be accessed remotely by one or more client stations. In that case, it is
imperative
for the remote client to get proper authentication in order to access Spider server. The clients
(no matter which version of Windows they run) must use the
exact same
user account names and
passwords as were defined on the server side or inside the Windows XP network domain. Make sure to
follow instructions in section 3.1.1 carefully in order to avoid problems such as users’ inability to connect
to Spider servers.
3.1.1 Creating user accounts and group using standard Windows tools
This section describes specifics of creating the
Spider Operator
account and a group for
all
Spider users
using the standard Windows XP
Computer Management
program. One or more (any number) of regular
non-privileged users accounts can be created in a similar way. Finally, all Spider-related user accounts
should be included into the newly created
Spider Users
group to simplify access rights management.
Additional details about the
Computer Management
program as well as general concepts of user and
group management can be found in the electronic or printed documentation that describes Windows XP
administration. It is available from Microsoft and third party publishers.
Note:
Unless all
Spider Server
and/or
Standalone
stations have been established as
members of Windows network domain, the
exactly same procedure
described here
