Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Permissions

SharePoint Portal Server understands and enforces normal Windows NT and Windows 2000 security policies. The server uses both local and domain groups and accounts to set security permissions within the workspace; and, when the server accesses information sources outside the workspace, the normal NT security model still applies.

Users and Groups

The standard entities for assigning security controls are the user and group accounts within Windows NT or Windows 2000. It is recommended that you use domain, rather than local, users and groups when assigning roles within the workspace, to facilitate the use of content sources on another server. When the SharePoint Portal Server crawls other servers, it cannot recognize local user server accounts ...