TDNS and adding Providers

You must specify a Provider (formerly called “Distributor”) when setting up a Registration Server. The first Provider will be the Default Provider and has all rights to administrate all additional Provider and their users and licenses. This first Provider will be created during the server setup as described in (see Provider Setup)

After setting up the Registration Server, more Providers can be added as required. Adding a new Provider is explained in (see Provider Record). After setup, changes can be made to the Provider settings using the Admin Console as described in the same chapter.

Connecting users between different Registration Servers

The TeamDrive Name Server (TDNS) settings are one of the more important settings which must be defined during the setup and which can not be enabled later on when users are already registered on your Registration Server.

The TDNS helps send invitations between users which are registered on different Registration Server by mappings the user to their respective servers. This is necessary because invitations must be send to the Registration Server for which the user is registered with their devices.

Usernames, unlike email addresses, are unique within the TDNS network. If you enable TDNS access, any username that is already in use by a server within the TDNS network can not be used by your own Registration Server.

TDNS access will modify the registration, login, search and invitation calls in the Registration Server (as well as the API calls) and check the TDNS, determining which username exists on which Registration Server in the TDNS network.

Every Provider requires a record on the TDNS. A record will have a ServerID and a checksum. All requests will contain the ServerID and checksum to verify that the request is coming from a valid Registration Server.

You have to enable outgoing access on the HTTP-Port 80 to tdns.teamdrive.net to enable the communication from your Registration Server to the global TDNS.

For more details see chapter TeamDrive Name Server (TDNS).