Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.6.0b Installation - Manual (Page 49)

September 22, 2006 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide 49
Prepare for core configuration stages
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the media directory on the NAS. You can
do this with the following path:
\\root-nb-nas-1\Media
2. Verify basic read/write capabilities by creating, modifying, and deleting a simple
text file.
To verify access from client network machines, choose a machine on the Client
network that can represent a Aurora Browse client PC and that is convenient for
testing. From this machine do the following:
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the media directory on the NAS. You can
do this with the following path:
\\root-nb-nas-1\Media
2. Verify that Aurora Browse client PCs will have read only rights.
About the nbadmin account
The nbadmin account should be set up by default on Aurora Browse machines that
you receive from the factory. This account is critical for most Aurora Browse proxy
access, as explained in this section.
A local nbadmin account is required on the following machines:
• Proxy NAS machines
• Advanced encoder
• SmartBin encoder
• MDI server
• MediaFrame server
• Aurora DSM
• M-Series iVDR
• Profile XPS
• K2 systems
All NAS machines require that an nbadmin account with a password of ***** has
permission to the folder on the NAS that the encoders write to, and that the web
service running on the MediaFrame server reads from.
The basic principle is that any service that requires write access to the Proxy NAS
must run as the nbadmin account. This is a local machine account (NOT a domain
account). This includes all encoders, the MediaFrame server (which creates EDL files
on the Proxy NAS), the News MDI (which writes/deletes a temporary EDL file off of
the Proxy NAS), the Proxy MDI (which deletes files off of the Proxy NAS) and the
Profile MDI (which deletes temporary EDLs off of the Proxy NAS).
On K2 systems and M-Series iVDRs, security is invoked, which requires
administrator privilege. This privilege comes from the nbadmin account, which is
another way the nbadmin comes into play on these devices.
***** Contact Grass Valley
Support for password.