WebControl User Access

nherc

Is there a way to limit access in the WebControl of a controller to only allow access to the touch panels? I went through the security and I did not see how to add a new user, although I could add a group. Also, it seemed you could only limit access to the ports and not the System or Security sections of the WebControl panel.

Basically, if we give a client WebControl access to their panels, how do we keep them out of the System settings?

Thanks.

yuri

netlinx security is pretty lame.
what we did once is just make a .html page with links to the G3 webcontrol.
So you could make a page for each of your users, and give them only a link that their own panel

nherc

I got you. Did you host those pages on the controller or did you use a separate web server?

On a side note, what use are the Security Settings without explicit control of what each user can access within the WebControl?

yuri

i hosted them on the controller itself, but you can host them on a seperate webserver too. Search the forums, there are some examples

Darkside

If you name your newly created web page as index.htm or default.htm then the webcontrol.asp page will no longer be launched if you simply type in the ip address of the master in the browser. Instead, your page will be launched.

As Yuri said, just create your page with as many hyperlinks as you like to the web panels.

One of our client has asked us for a level of security on the web pages - before they even get to the webtouch panels. Even though the webtouch panels had security as part of the code, they still wanted to stop people even seeing the interfaces..

We wrote some simple Java code to achieve this.

yuri

stephen, you used the Java code on the master frame or on a seperate frame?

Darkside

Hi Yuri,

The java code formed part of the index.htm page hosted by the NI. This simply stopped users from getting near the touch panels.

The AMX code then applied sophisticated security to the webtouch panel itself.