Anonymous users can enter a virtual place and have awareness
of other users in the same virtual place.
About this task
This capability to have awareness of other users in the same virtual place is sometimes called
place-based awareness. Place-based awareness differs from
community-wide awareness. With community-wide awareness, users can have
awareness of any user in the community who is online. IBM®
Sametime® provides users with community-wide
awareness functionality. Anonymous users are not allowed to have community-wide
awareness in any Sametime clients.
Enter
information for anonymous access to a virtual place. Each attendee
who accepts the default name has a number added to the end (for example,
User1, User2).
This task must be completed separately for each
server within a Sametime Community
Server cluster.
Procedure
- Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console.
- Click .
- In the Sametime Community Servers list,
click the deployment name of the server with the connectivity information
that you want to change.
- Click the Anonymous access tab.
- Select the appropriate anonymous access type for the Sametime Community Server:
- Anonymous allowed to all users - Allow
any anonymous user to access community server.
- Allowed by token authentication only -
Allow access to the Community Server only to anonymous users who have
a valid token.
- Denied - Deny access to the Community
Server to all anonymous users.
- If you want to let an anonymous user have a unique display
name when accessing a Sametime application
that includes awareness, click Users of Sametime applications
(databases such as stconf.nsf or websites) can specify a display name
so that they do not appear online as "anonymous." A display
name entry dialog box appears when a user accesses the Sametime application. This
display name allows the anonymous user to be individually identified
in any presence lists in the Sametime application.
Note: The ACL settings of the application must allow anonymous
access, too.
- If you want to have a domain name automatically appended
to the display name entered by the user at the name entry dialog box,
click Default domain for anonymous users.
- If you want a name to appear by default in the name entry
dialog box, click Default name.
For
instance, if the Default name field contains
the entry User the first person entering a
meeting sees User displayed by default in the
name field of the name entry dialog box. If the person accepts the
default and enters the application, the person is identified as User1 in
any presence list in the application.
- Specify the level of access that an anonymous user of an
application enabled with Sametime technology
has to the directory. You can limit an anonymous user's ability to
view names in the directory. For example, you might prevent anonymous
users from browsing all names in a directory or searching for names
in the directory.
- Users cannot browse or search the Directory
Anonymous
users cannot search or browse the directory.
- Users can type names to add them to an awareness list
Anonymous
users can type text in an user search interface to search for person
or group entries in the directory. However, users cannot view or browse
a list containing all entries in the directory. Users might perform
such searches to add users to a presence list.
- Users can browse the directory (see a list of names)
or type names (resolve users and groups)
Anonymous users
can type text in an user search interface and search for group or
person entries in the directory. Anonymous users can also browse lists
that contain all entries in the directory. When this option is selected,
anonymous users can see all group and name entries in the directory,
but cannot see the content of a group entry (the list of names within
a group entry). Users cannot browse the LDAP directory on the LDAP
server
- Users can browse the directory to see group content
and names, or type names
Anonymous users have all searching
and browsing privileges described for the Users can browse
the directory (see a list of names) or type names (resolve users and
groups) setting. In addition, users can search and browse
within group entries in the directory and access the user and group
names that are specified within group entries in the directory.
- Click OK
- Restart the Sametime Community
Server for settings to take effect.