Windows account information (SDK only)

For SDK connections only, you can specify Windows account information as part of the PI trust.

• Windows Domain: the Windows domain of the user who is running the application.

• Windows Account: the Windows user name of the user who is running the application.

It is possible to use a dollar sign ($) for the user name for a particular domain; then users on that domain can connect through this trust to existing PI users of the same name as the Windows user running the application. This is called a dollar-sign trust. To configure a dollar-sign trust, you typically first import your Windows usernames and passwords as PI users. See Import Windows users. (The dollar sign is a valid value for the domain as well as the user name.)

Note: A PI mapping serves the same purpose as a trust based on OS user name and Windows domain membership. With Data Archive version 3.4.380 and later, you should use PI mappings instead of dollar-sign trusts.