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Enabling SAML authentication in installed clients

Enable SAML authentication from within the HCL® Sametime® Connect or Embedded client that is already installed on a computer.

Enabling SAML authentication in an installed client requires the following information, which the Sametime administrator can provide to users:

  • URL of the authentication server
  • HTML tag ID or tag name for the following fields depending on the type of login: User name, Password, and Submit

These instructions only apply to a client that is already installed on a computer (the stand-alone Connect client or the Embedded client that runs in HCL Notes®).

  1. Open the Sametime Preferences dialog box.

    • In the stand-alone Connect client, click Actions and Preferences > Preferences .
    • n the client embedded in HCL Notes, click File > Preferences > Sametime.
    • In the Preferences list, click Server Communities.

  2. On the Server Communities page, click New Server Community.

  3. On the New Server Community page, fill in the information listed in Table 1.

    Server community type : Select Sametime.

    Server community type : Server community name : Type the community name.

  4. Click the Log In tab.

    1. Turn on the Use token-based single sign-on parameter.

    2. In the Authentication server field, type the authentication server's URL, which you can obtain from your administrator.

    3. In the Authentication type field, select SAML and complete the following fields.

      Login : If users log in to your company's authentication server by typing a user name and password in the browser login page, select Browser and do not specify a value for the User name and Password fields.

      : If users log in to your company's authentication server by typing a user name and password in a Sametime dialog box, select Form and specify a value for the User name and Password fields.

      User name tag : Specify either the HTML tag ID or the tag name of the user name field in the IdP.

      Password tag : Specify either the HTML tag ID or the tag name of the password field in the IdP.

      Submit tag : If Browser was selected, this field is optional. Specify a value for this field if you want to enable automatic log-ins after network interruptions, provide either the HTML tag ID or the tag name of the submit field in the IdP. If you do not specify a value, passwords are not retained from one log-in to the next.

      : If Form was selected, specify either the HTML tag ID or the tag name of the submit field in the IdP.

  5. Click the Server tab and provide the following information.

    Host server : The fully qualified host name of the Sametime server.

    Server community port : The Sametime server port, specify 1533.

  6. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box.

Parent Topic: Setting up SSO using SAML