TS6.5 on windows: Mapping OS groups to TS groups?

Interwoven TeamSite 6.5.0.0
Build Number: 41240
OS: windows 2000

We are looking at mapping existing OS groups to ts groups on our newly upgraded TS 6.5 server. Lack of documentation in this area is stopping us from moving forward.
Could anybody please explain the steps to map the OS groups on to TS groups on a windows environment

Thanks very much.

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Adam Stoller

Are you planning to continue using OS groups - or are you planning to replace OS groups with TS groups?
Have you looked at this thread? It is kind of a dissertation on how to do this for Unix.

For Windows - I imagine that the process is similar though clearly there will be some differences.

I'm not sure what the limitations for use of iwgroup is on Windows -- right now on Unix it seems to require root / sudo access - my guess is that for Windows you'd have to be a member of the local Administrators group in order to use it.

I've filed several bugs against the CLT - including it's lack of showing gid information and it's ability to create groups without gid's which will get you into trouble later on.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Sunil Mugalavally

Thanks Ghoti.
Yes. We are planning to replace OS groups with TS groups.
I actually followed your earlier post that discuss it for UNIX.

I created 3 TS groups using the iwgroup CLT and added users to these groups again with the CLT.(a conf/tsgroups.xml was created properly)
Then using the iwidmap clt, read the group ids in to a file. Modified the "Name Data" field in the xml (OS group name to TS group name).
Executed the iwidmap clt with options "-u -a -i" to read from the xml file. Deactivated and activated the iwstore.
Now in the iwgid .xml file this is what I see
<RECORD>
<TOKEN data="106" />
<ID data="S-1-5-21--1084986744-984811907-132644819-1006" />
<IWGID data="12" />
<NAME data="A_Intranet_Editors" />
</RECORD>
<RECORD>
<TOKEN data="107" />
<ID data="S-1-5-21-220523388-879983540-1801674531-185614" />
<IWGID data="-1" />
<NAME data="US\PMC Corp UR TS Common Developers" />
</RECORD>
<RECORD>
<TOKEN data="108" />
<ID data="S-1-5-21-220523388-879983540-1801674531-115946" />
<IWGID data="-1" />
<NAME data="US\PMC Corp UR TS PMCCCom Developers" />
</RECORD>
<RECORD>
<TOKEN data="109" />
<ID data="S-1-5-21--1084986744-984811907-132644819-1006" />
<IWGID data="11" />
<NAME data="A_Com_Editors" />
</RECORD>

"A_Com_Editors" and "A_Intranet_Editors" are TS Groups.
For the branch that had the OS group now show the TS group in the TS UI and for testing purpose i had added only 2 users to this TS group. But apparently all users under the OS group can still access the branch. This is where I am confused. Am I missing anything??
Appreciate your help.
-Sunil

Adam Stoller

You'll probably need to post your IWHOME/conf/tsgroups.xml file too.
Hopefully someone working with Windows will be able to help you - right now I consider myself fortunate that my needs for working with Windows are few and far between ;-)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Sunil Mugalavally

Here is the IWHOME/conf/tsgroups.xml for anybody who can assist me..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<iwgroups>
<iwgroup name="A_Com_Editors" id="11">
<user name="us\kumars1">
</user>
</iwgroup>
<iwgroup name="A_Intranet_Editors" id="12">
</iwgroup>
<iwgroup name="A_com_Developers" id="203">
</iwgroup>
<iwgroup name="A_Developers" id="204">
</iwgroup>
</iwgroups>

Thanks.
-Sunil

Migrateduser

Hi Sunil,

I am also facing with the same issue were you able to resolve this issue on windows.

Thanks