Change the anonymous user of your website

An anonymous user is the account that Perceptive Enterprise Search will use when it cannot identify the calling user. The anonymous user is a standard Windows account that Perceptive Enterprise Search creates on installation. The account is local to the web server (it is not a domain account).

As it is a local account, it does not have permission to access network resources; the searching website will not be able to find any documents that reside on the network.

You can overcome this by changing the anonymous user to an account that has permissions to the resources that you are trying to access. To change the anonymous user:

1. Open your Perceptive Enterprise Search administration site.
2. Expand WebSites then select the website you wish to change.
3. Expand Security and select Access Control.
4. Under the Guest User section make sure Use managed anonymous user account (ISYSGuest_Machine) is not checked.
5. Enter the Username and Password of the account you wish to use as the anonymous user.
   If you are trying to use a domain account you may need to fully qualify the username in the form of "DOMAIN\USERNAME"
6. Click Save.

Note: You can always reset the default anonymous user by selecting "Use managed anonymous user account (ISYSGuest_Machine)".

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