Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 54)

54 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide April 27, 2006
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
To verify access, from each production network 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 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 NewsBrowse 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 NewsBrowse client PCs will have read only rights.
About the nbadmin account
The nbadmin account should be set up by default on NewsBrowse machines that you
receive from the factory. This account is critical for most NewsBrowse proxy access,
as explained in this section.
A local nbadmin account is required on the following machines:
• Proxy NAS machines
• Single-channel encoder
• Advanced encoder
• SmartBin encoder
• MDI server
• NewsBrowse server
• The News DSM
• M-Series iVDR
• Profile XPS
• K2 systems
All NewsBrowse 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 NewsBrowse 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 NewsBrowse 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).
***** Contact Grass Valley
Support for password.