Selecting Users or Groups from the Local OS User Database

The following procedure describes how to use CentraSite's standard dialogs to search for users or groups in the local operating system's user database.

This dialog opens to an empty list. You must type a search string to retrieve a list of users or groups. To retrieve all the users or groups, leave the Search field empty and click Search.

Search strings are not case-sensitive .The search string “bar”, for example, will find “BAR” and “Bar”.

When you are searching the user list, CentraSite searches the user ID attribute, not the user name attribute. Thus, if a user has the user ID MyDomain\AdminUser01 and the name John Smith, a search for Admin will find the user, whereas a search for John will not.

CentraSite does a “starts with” search on the user ID or group name. The domain portion of the name is not included in the search. Thus, if a user has the user ID MyDomain\AdminUser01, a search for Ad will find the user, whereas a search for User01 or My will not.

You can type the wildcard characters % or * alone in the Search field to retrieve the list of all users or groups. However, you cannot combine these wildcard characters with other character sequences. The sequences “xx%” and “%xx”, for example, are not valid search strings.

CentraSite automatically filters out users that have already been added to CentraSite. For example, if the local machine has users CH001 and CH002, and user CH001 has already been added to CentraSite, a search for users starting with CH, will return user CH002, but not user CH001.

1. In the Search field, type a search string that specifies the characters with which the user ID begins. The following are examples.

If you type...	CentraSite will return...
b	User IDs that begin with b.
bar	User IDs that begin with bar.
%	All user IDs.
*	All user IDs.
emptyString	All user IDs.

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you obtain a list that contains the users that you want to add to CentraSite.

4. Select the users or groups that you want to add to CentraSite.

5. If the user that you want to add to CentraSite is not known to the local system, but is known to a domain server to which the local operating system is connected, type the user’s domain-qualified name into the Type Domain Name field. (This field is not available in all versions of this dialog.)

Note:

If you type a user ID in the Type Domain Name field, CentraSite ignores any selections you have made in the user list.