SOLIDWORKS PDM has an inherent function that allows you to create PDM users directly in the admin tool, and those users and credentials are unique to the vault. SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional also integrates with your Active Directory (or “AD”) listings so that Windows users can be imported into the vault, allowing users to utilize a single sign-on where their PDM credentials and Windows credentials are the same. This saves some time creating users, but also makes for a pretty convenient way to access your vault.
If you use Windows logins with SOLIDWORKS PDM, there’s a good chance you’ll run into this scenario at one point or another. Generally, it presents itself as one user getting an error about their credentials being wrong when logging in – most commonly “Username or password invalid” or “The entered username or password is incorrect”.
SOLIDWORKS PDM is a client-server software that requires various network connections to function properly. There are numerous ways to check on those connections to ensure everything is working as it should – or to identify the problem when it’s not.
It is sometimes necessary to move SOLIDWORKS PDM data to new server(s) with different names. This could be due to a necessary upgrade, server crash or outage, policy compliance changes, or a variety of other reasons. Knowing how to do so correctly is critical for your environment to be down for as little time as possible while still coming away with a fully functioning vault at the end of the process.