Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 - Manual (Page 46)

46 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide December 16, 2004
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 Windows Domains and the nbadmin account
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.
From a Windows networking perspective, when a user account is defined on a local
computer rather than a Domain Controller, the account is a “local” account, whose
complete name is \, rather than
\. For example, with an encoder named Encoder1, a
NewsBrowse server named Server1, and a NAS named NAS1, there are three separate
local accounts: Encoder1\nbadmin, Server1\nbadmin, and NAS1\nbadmin.
The Windows network automatically maps a local account from one computer onto
the local account of another computer—as long as both the account name and the
password are identical. To enable this mapping to occur, the Windows Domain
Controller “synchronizes” the local accounts on computers at the time they join the
Domain. Therefore, if the nbadmin account is added to the NAS machine after the
Windows NAS has joined the Windows Domain, this synchronization does not occur.
This should not be a problem on factory-prepared NewsBrowse machines, as they
come with the nbadmin account pre-configured. However, if the proper sequence is
not followed and the problem does occur, the workaround is to remove the NAS from
the Windows Domain and then re-add it immediately thereafter.
Accessing NewsBrowse services
NewsBrowse software components are distributed among the machines that make up
the NewsBrowse system. These software components run as Windows services. A
NewsBrowse machine has the services that correspond to the NewsBrowse software
components it hosts.
When you change the configuration for a particular software component through the
NewsBrowse configuration pages, you must restart that software component’s
NewsBrowse service to put the changes into effect. Click
Start | Settings | Control
Panel | Administrative Tools | Services to access the services. All NewsBrowse service
names start with “Thomson…”, so they group together in the services list.
***** Contact Grass Valley
Support for password.