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User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Shared Storage and Product Servers
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When you install the Interplay Engine or the Interplay Archive Engine, do not select the
default Server Execution User. Create a custom user instead. The default user account is
AVID_WORKGROUP_USER. Do not use this account.
Ideally the Server Execution user should be an account that users do not use to log onto the
system. This prevents accidental changes to the Server User Account during normal
administration duties. For example, if someone changes the password by mistake, users might
not be able to access the Interplay database.
For security reasons, do not use the Interplay Engine server operating system Administrator
account. Create a unique account that you use only as the Server Execution User. For example,
you can create an administrative account called “IPEngine.” Avoiding the word Administrator
can help indicate that this account is not used for normal administrative tasks.
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The Server Execution User account is different from the Interplay Administrator account. The
Server Execution User account is used to run the Interplay Engine processes. The Interplay
Administrator account is used to manage users and the database.
For more information, see “Troubleshooting the Server Execution User Account” in the Avid
Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.
Recreating the Server Execution User
If you have already installed the Interplay Engine and need to change the user name and
password of the Server Execution User account, run the NXNServerUser.exe tool. For
information on using the tool, see “Re-creating the Server Execution User” in the Avid Interplay
Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide. The tool is located in the
following directory on the Interplay Installer:
Installers\AssetMgr\Tools\NXNServerUser
For information on upgrading a cluster system on which you changed the Server Execution User,
see the Avid Interplay ReadMe.
Accounts for Accessing Workspaces
To allow the Interplay Engine to access the Avid shared storage workspaces, you need to set up
user accounts on both the Interplay Engine and the Avid shared storage system. The user name
and password for these user accounts must match exactly on both the Interplay Engine and Avid
shared storage system. If the user names or passwords are different, the workspaces are not
available in Interplay Administrator settings, such as the Media Creation workspace in the Editor
Settings tab of the Application Database Settings.