Important: You must install
IBM Aspera Shares locally or on
a remote host before you can configure a directory service. For information on installing the
latest version of Shares, please review the
Administrator's Guide.
Before continuing, please ensure that the following prerequisites have been satisfied:
- Shares is installed locally or on a remote host: For instructions on how to install Shares
on the same machine as Console, see Console and Shares on Same Machine.
- Console is installed on the same machine as Shares: Configure your Shares web server to
use a non-standard HTTPS port (for example, 8443, rather than 443). See the Shares Administrator's Guide (the "Setting up Shares" topic).
- Console is installed on the same machine as Shares: Configure your Shares database with
the correct host and port settings. For more information, see Working with Shares and Directory Services.
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Go to Accounts > Directories from the Console menu.
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Select Remote Authentication to enable remote authentication so
that Console can access the groups and users on your Shares server.
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Enter the base URL.
Shares users and groups are authenticated through this Node API base URL. The standard
base URL is
https://shares_IP_address/api/v1.
Note: Because you must use HTTPS to connect to your Shares directory service, ensure
that your Node API base URL uses HTTPS, rather than HTTP.
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Enter the Shares Node API user credentials.
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Click Save and test settings.
Once the directory service is successfully connected, you can add remote users and
remote groups by boing to
Users > Groups. For more information, see
Adding Remote Users and
Adding Remote Groups.