You can view/edit the settings for the Authentication features, and define logged-in users information.
Set information required for the authentication.
The displayed items vary depending on the authentication method implement in your environment.
Set whether to enable logging of authentication failures, and the number of login attempts to be recorded as failure.
Set whether to enable locking of the user account with system administrator permissions, and the number of login attempts allowed.
Set whether to enable locking of local users, and the number of login attempts allowed.
This item is displayed when configuring [Log In to Local Accounts].
Set the timeout time applied when accessing the server.
This item is displayed when configuring [Log In to Remote Accounts] or [Smart Card Login].
Set the timeout time applied when searching user information.
This item is displayed when configuring [Log In to Remote Accounts] or [Smart Card Login].
Set the way how logged-in user ID is displayed.
Set whether to retrieve remote user information.
Set whether to store user information used during remote authentication in the printer.
When the storing of login information into the device is enabled, once a user completes remote authentication, information on the user is stored in the printer, and thus the user can log in to the printer using user information stored in the printer even when the remote authentication server is not started at remote authentication.
This feature is only applied to users who logged in to the printer with smart card.
This item can be set when [Login Type] is set to [Log In to Remote Accounts].
Set whether to use the UPN (User Principal Name) format for user names.
When [Log In to Remote Accounts] or [Customized Login] is selected in [Login Type], set whether to allow users that are not registered with the remote authentication server to use the printer as guest users.
Set a password for guests.
Enter the password for guests again for confirmation.
Set whether to use smart card.
Set whether to use the smart card link mode.
Set character types allowed for user IDs at authentication.
Configure how passwords are handled at authentication.
Set whether to restrict the minimum length of login passwords.
If you choose to restrict the minimum length, also set the minimum number of characters.
Set the maximum number of characters for login passwords.
Set whether to use user names of their login password strings.
Set character restrictions for the login password strings.
Set whether to ask users for an action to be authenticated.
Select this item not to authenticate users attempting to operate the printer.
Clicking the [Select] button specifies No Login Required.
Select this item to use information pre-registered with the printer.
Click the [Select]/[Edit] button to select the way how user IDs are entered.
When setting [Log In to Local Accounts] or [Log In to Remote Accounts], user accounts registered with the printer are listed. To edit the settings for individual user account, click the user name, and see User Accounts.
Once you change the setting to [Log In to Remote Accounts], or change from [Log In to Remote Accounts] to another setting, the below data is deleted.
Use this item to enable authentication against the remote authentication server. User information does not need to be registered with the printer.
Click the [Select]/[Edit] button to select an authentication system.
Fill in [Domain], [Primary Server Name / IP Address] and [Secondary Server Name / IP Address].
Click the [Add] button to add a server. Up to four servers can be registered.
For more information on the settings, see the [LDAP] dialog box.
To use ApeosWare Management Suite (sold separately) as the authentication system, select [Authentication Agent].
Select this item to use your customized authentication system.