I'll start from the begining to show i've given this some thought....

I've configured the NMC to LDAP authentication. When doing so, the External Role for the Admins is Backup_Admins and i've assigned Backup_Users to the Console User role.

With this is mind, i've then wanted to assign permissions on the Networker Server using the same AD Groups. Using the standard 2 groups that come with Networker Server for simplicity when testing i want to add Backup_Admins to the Administrators group and Backup_Users i want to assign to the User group

Under Users and Groups on the Configuration tab in Networker Server, it seems to offer some default permissions, the first one being this...

Group=administrators,host=<servername>

From what i've read in the Admin Guide it implies that the software is also able to recognise several other options and domain groups appears to be one of them, the example in the documentation refers to local and global groups and offers administrators and Domain Admins as 2 examples.

However, when trying to use Group=<Domain AD Group>,Domain=<MyDomain.co.uk> it doesnt actually work - it accepts the syntax as if i mistype the domain name it gives me an error message stating the domain refered to is not a trusted domain, but it doesnt seem to apply the access to the members of this group.

Surely its meant to work otherwise how would you make proper use of AD here as it would kind of make the NMC LDAP part pointless if you cant secure the Networker Server in the same kind of way?

Has anyone got this working like this? If so, what have you done please.

Thanks all in advance!