FinePointe may be configured to use one of the following two user authentication systems:

• FinePointe Username & Password
• Windows Domain authentication

This article describes how to configure the system to use the Windows Domain authentication to log into FinePointe. To do this:

1. Ensure Use Windows Security is checked in the FinePointe Control Panel Security Policies settings.
   
   
   
   Note: Other security settings are disabled because minimum password length, password expiration, etc. will be handled by the domain controller.
2. Users must be created as follows:
   
    
1. Windows Authentication must be selected
2. The login name might be one of the following syntaxes:
1. Username
2. domain\username
3. username@domain
   
   Depending on the security environment, the domain may need to be included in the user name specification. Either domain\username or username@domain may need to be specified.

On member servers and review clients, you may need to edit FinePointeClient.xml, and set UseNTLogin to True in the "knowncontroller" line: