User Accounts Created Automatically on the Virtual ViewX Server Machine

A user account is created automatically in Windows on the Virtual ViewX server machine when you install Virtual ViewX. The user account is required to run the ViewX processes that are created on that server machine. It is important that this user account is not deleted, nor its password changed, otherwise Virtual ViewX will be unable to operate.

The Virtual ViewX server uses two Windows accounts. Use the Administrative Tools | Computer Management application in Windows® to check these. In the application, open the folder Local Users and Groups | Users. Check that the two users VVXLocalUser and VirtualUI have the following settings configured:

• User must change password at next logon should be clear

• Account is disabled should be clear

• Password never expires should be set

• The VirtualUI user must have permission to create users and remote logon.

For each of these users, change their passwords to a suitable long and complex password. Do this by right-clicking on the entries within the Users list.

Check that the VVXLocalUser is a member of the Users group. Check that the VirtualUI user is a member of the Remote Desktop Users group.

Then use the Virtual ViewX Manager application in Geo SCADA Expert to set up these passwords in Virtual ViewX. Do this on the Sessions tab for the VirtualUI user (check the domain), and do this on the Applications tab for the VVXLocalUser user. With the latter users, double-click the Virtual ViewX entry in the table and then select the Credentials tab from the form that gets displayed.

Do not confuse this user account with the 'configured' Geo SCADA Expert User Accounts that are required to enable users to access the Geo SCADA Expert database from Virtual ViewX clients (see Geo SCADA Expert User Accounts for Accessing Virtual ViewX).