Unlike on the Mac, the FileMaker Server installation process does not create a
local FMS Admin Group on the Windows Machine. So if you want to make use of this
feature, you'll have to create the group manually. So let's go ahead and do that.
Let's go over to our Windows machine and access the local accounts and your best
way to do that is right click on My Computer and choose Manage, which will bring
up this window and from here you can have access to local users and the local
groups. As you can see, there's no FMS Admin Group amongst the groups that are
installed on the machine, so let's go ahead and create one. And we'll add my
domain accounts to that. Now, my domain account is now a member of the local FMS
Admin Group on the FileMaker Server machine. So now let's go back to our Mac
machine and see if we can log in to the FileMaker Server running on that machine
with my Windows domain accounts. And as you can see, we can have access to the
Admin Console. This works, of course, because we've already enabled allow
members of the FMS Admin Group to log in for this particular Windows FileMaker
Server. A special case for logging into the Admin Console is SSO, or Single
Sign-On. Single-Sign-On used to work with FileMaker Server 7 and 8 for an
administrator to log into the Admin Console, but it doesn't work anymore in
FileMaker Server 9 and 10. Single Sign-On used to work in a very specific
scenario where you had a Windows workstation that belong to an active directory
domain with the administrator logged into that machine with his domain accounts.
That domain account had to belong to the FMS Admin Group. Now, the Windows
FileMaker Server also had to belong to the same active directory domain. Now,
back in FileMaker Server 7 and 8 when the administrator launched the Admin
Console, he would be given access to that Admin Console without having to
provide his credentials. Like we said, that doesn't work any more in FileMaker
Server 9 and 10, even though the specific Single Sign-On scenario would be valid.
There is a separate movie in this tutorial about Single Sign-On. If you are using
external authentication with a domain, either Windows Active Directory or Mac
Open Directory, then you should create the FMS Admin Group on the domain
controller and not locally on the FileMaker Server. External authentication and
Single Sign-On are explained in greater detail later on in their movies. None of
the changes that you make here require that you restart FileMaker Server except,
that is, if you enable Access Restrictions. Access Restrictions are only applied
and take effect at the next FileMaker Server restart.
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