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The Spector CNE Control Center was designed for domain networks to manage the Client Recorders from a remote location. However, you can configure your Windows Workgroup for Spector CNE by adding a Local Administrator to each client's Administrator Group that allows for remote Client installation and management.
During Setup you must provide the Control Center with an account that has Administrator privileges on the remote Client computers. Because a workgroup has no "Domain Administrator," you will need Administrator authentication for each computer in the workgroup environment. With no common repository of user names (and associated privileges) in a Windows Workgroup, you must create the same Administrator account manually on each computer.
The following diagram shows a workgroup network, where the Control Center user is logged on as "Administrator" with a password of “tubby”:
Of the three client computers in the workgroup, the only one that has a user defined with the same credentials as the Control Center computer is “Client 1.” Therefore, the only machine the Control Center will be able to see and manipulate is “Client 1”.
What you need is a local “Administrator” account that is the same on each machine and uses the same password. After the local Administrator account is defined on each computer, you can simply log on to the Control Center computer using that account. All of the other computers are then visible to the Spector CNE Control Center.
To create a local Administrator user:
On each computer where the Client Recorder will be installed, log in as the local Administrator (the user who normally uses the computer).
Use the Windows Control Panel and User Accounts to add up a local account, for example, SpectorAdmin.
Add this account to the Administrators group.
The new Administrator account on each computer must have the exact same user name (e.g., SpectorAdmin) and password (case sensitivity rules apply). Add the same account (e.g., SpectorAdmin) with the same password to the Administrator group of the computer where the Control Center and Primary Server reside.
When using the Control Center, log in to the computer using the new Administrator account (e.g., SpectorAdmin).
Note: It does NOT matter which user is logged on to a Client machine as long as the Admin account as described above exists in the local Administrators group on the machine.
