Choosing an account for local connections

If one of the layers in your Web application uses a local connection to ArcGIS Server, you will see a panel asking which account you want to use for the connection.

The account you choose must

• Be a member of the agsusers group on all servers your application will access through a local connection
• Have write access to the Temporary ASP.NET files directory.

How is the default user chosen?

You may see that the value is already filled in. By default, the account is set to the first user who created a Web application using Manager. If you're creating a new Web application and you don't want it to connect as the default user, you can click Change to choose a different user. This user will then become the default.

If you change the user while editing an existing application, the default will not be changed.

Changing passwords

If possible, it's a good idea to choose an account whose password rarely or never changes. However, some organizations' security standards require that all passwords be changed on a regular basis.

If you change an account's password, the Web applications that make local connections with that account do not get updated automatically. You must edit the applications individually in Manager using the Local Servers tab to change the password used by the application.