Simple Auth. setting

[Authentication Setting]

Select whether to allow authentication that is based only on the user name (without a password) when the printer driver is used for printing in an environment where user authentication is employed.

To permit the quick authentication, the login user name for this machine for MFP authentication, external server authentication, and enhanced server authentication must match the Windows login ID.

[Restrict] is specified by default.

[Register Authentication Server]

When external server authentication is implemented, register the LDAP server to check user names.

If you group two servers, you can switch to another server to perform authentication when a server shuts down.

For details, refer to "Newly registering and editing authentication server" shown below.

[Server Name]

Enter the name of your authentication server group (using up to 32 characters).

Assign a name that helps you easily identify the authentication server group.

[1st Server Registration]

Register the primary server in the server group.

For details, refer to "Settings of [1st Server Registration]" shown below.

[2nd Server Setting]

Configure a setting to connect to the secondary server when the machine cannot be connected to the primary server.

For details, refer to "Settings of [2nd Server Setting]" shown below.

[Round Robin function]

Select whether to alternately connect to the primary and secondary servers.

If you select [Enable], you can alternately connect the primary and secondary servers to distribute the server load.

[Disable] is specified by default.

[External Server Authentication]

Select the external authentication server group used to associate the quick authentication.

When quick authentication succeeds, user authentication information is registered on the machine to manage users on the machine. This authentication information includes the user name and external authentication server name. The external authentication server name selected here is registered on the machine together with the user name.

[Timeout]

If necessary, change the time-out time to limit a communication with the LDAP server.

[60 sec.] is specified by default.

[Search Attribute]

Enter the search attribute to be used for search of a user using the LDAP server (using up to 64 characters).

The attribute must start with an alphabet character.

[uid] is specified by default.

[Search Directory Service]

If you select [Active Directory], you can limit a search target for authentication to users. However, when a search target for authentication is limited to users, search target identification processing occurs on the server side, so the authentication time may be delayed. This function is available when the authentication server is set to Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 or later).

[Other] is specified by default.

[Server Address]

Enter the LDAP server address.

Use one of the following formats.

• Example of host name entry: "host.example.com"

• Example of IP address (IPv4) entry: "192.168.1.1"

• Example of IP address (IPv6) entry: "fe80::220:6bff:fe10:2f16"

[Search Base 1] to [Search Base 3]

Specify the starting point to search for a user to be authenticated.

• [Search Base]: Specify the starting point to search for a target (using up to 255 characters).
  Example of entry: "cn=users,dc=example,dc=com"

• [Search Range]: Select a tree search range. [Full Tree] is specified by default.
  Selecting [Full Tree] makes a search, including the tree structure under the entered starting point. Selecting [Next hierarchy only] searches for only one level directly beneath the entered starting point. In this case, the level at the starting point is not included as a search target.

[SSL Setting]

Specify whether or not to use SSL for communication with the LDAP server.

[OFF] is specified by default.

[Port Number]

If necessary, change the LDAP server port number.

In normal circumstances, you can use the original port number.

[389] is specified by default.

[Port Number (SSL)]

If necessary, change the SSL communication port number.

In normal circumstances, you can use the original port number.

[636] is specified by default.

[Certificate Verification Level Settings]

To validate the certificate during SSL communication, select items to be verified.

• [Expiration Date]: Confirm whether the certificate is within the validity period. [Confirm] is specified by default.

• [Key Usage]: Confirm whether the certificate is used according to the intended purpose approved by the certificate issuer. [Do Not Confirm] is specified by default.

• [Chain]: Confirm whether there is a problem in the certificate chain (certificate path). The chain is validated by referencing the external certificates managed on this machine. [Do Not Confirm] is specified by default.

• [Expiration Date Confirmation]: Confirm whether the certificate has expired. [Do Not Confirm] is specified by default.

• [CN]: Confirm whether CN (Common Name) of the certificate matches the server address. [Do Not Confirm] is specified by default.

[Authentication Type]

Select the authentication method to log in to the LDAP server.

Select one appropriate for the authentication method used for your LDAP server.

• [Simple]

• [Digest-MD5]

• [GSS-SPNEGO]

• [NTLM v1]

• [NTLM v2]

[Simple] is specified by default.

[Referral Setting]

Select whether to use the referral function, if necessary.

Make an appropriate choice to fit the LDAP server environment.

[ON] is specified by default.

[Login Name]

Log in to the LDAP server, and enter the user name to search for a user (using up to 64 characters).

In this step, enter the user (name) that belongs to a specific administrator group on the LDAP server.

[Password]

Enter the password of the user you entered into [Login Name] (using up to 64 characters).

[Domain Name]

Enter the domain name to log in to the LDAP server (using up to 64 characters).

If [GSS-SPNEGO] is selected for [Authentication Type], enter the domain name of Active Directory.

[Check Connection]

Select this option to try connecting to the LDAP server using the entered information and check if the information registered is correct.

[Reset All Settings]

Tap this button to reset all the contents you entered.

[ON]/[OFF]

Select whether to use the secondary server.

[OFF] is specified by default.

[Reconnection Set.]

Configure a setting to connect to the secondary server when the machine cannot be connected to the primary server. When the round-robin function is enabled, this setting can also be used to connect to the primary server when the machine cannot be connected to the secondary server.

• [Reconnect for every login]: Connects to the primary server each time authentication is carried out on this machine. If the primary server is shutting down, this machine is connected to the secondary server.

• [Set Reconnect Interval]: Connects to the secondary server when the primary server is shutting down at the time the machine is being authenticated. After this, this machine is connected to the secondary server when machine authentication is occurring until the time specified in [Reconnection Time] lapses. After the time specified in [Reconnection Time] has lapsed, this machine is reconnected to the primary server when machine authentication is occurring.

[Set Reconnect Interval] is specified by default.

[2nd Server Reg.]

Register the secondary server.

For details, refer to "Settings of [1st Server Registration]".

To extract the primary server setting and configure the secondary server setting, tap [Retrieve from 1st Server].