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WMS Publishing Points ACL Authorization - general properties

The WMS Publishing ACL Authorization plug-in is used to control access to your content based on the permissions you have set on your publishing points. You can use this plug-in to grant permissions for users and groups to access your Windows Media server. You have the following options when adding users to the access list.

Item Description
Name Displays the users and groups that currently are allowed to access content on your server. Do any of the following:
  • Click Add to add a user or group to the list.
  • Click Remove to remove the selected user or group from the list.
Permissions
Read Select either the Allow or Deny check box to set whether the user or group can read data from your server.
Write Select either the Allow or Deny check box to set whether the user or group can write data to your server. You must select both Write and Create in order for a user or group to create a publishing point.
Create When setting permission levels for a server, select either the Allow or Deny check box to set whether the user or group can create publishing points on your server.

When setting permission levels for a publishing point, select either the Allow or Deny check box to set whether the user or group can use this publishing point as a template for creating other publishing points on your server when pushing content from an encoder.

You must select both Write and Create in order for a user or group to create a publishing point.



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