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hexadecimal digit of the key.
A key of ffff ffff ffff or ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff indicates that
authentication is disabled.
Remote Full and Lightweight client applications that are
connecting to an authenticated network must set this
property before opening the system. If the application uses
the wrong authentication key, the client must close the
System, Network, and ObjectServer objects, re-acquire and
re-open the ObjectServer and Network objects, and the
re-acquire the System object. The application then must set
the AuthenticationKey property to the correct authentication
key, and re-open the system with the Open method.
For more information on opening systems and setting system
parameters, see the OpenLNS Programmer’s Guide.
Availability Local, full, and lightweight clients.
Syntax keyValue = systemObject.AuthenticationKey
Element Description
keyValue The authentication key.
systemObject The System object.
Data Type String.
Read/Write Read/write.
Added to API Prior to LNS Release 3.0.
ClassId
Summary Identifies the object class of this object.
This property allows the object type to be determined when it
is unknown (for example, when the object was accessed using
the Parent property of another object).
Availability Local, full, lightweight, and independent clients. Note that
some objects containing this property are not available to
Independent clients.
Syntax classIdValue = object.ClassId
Element Description
classIdValue The object class of the object. The
following value is defined for the System
object in the ConstClassIds constant:
3 lcaClassIdSystem
object The object to be acted on.
Data Type Integer.
Read/Write Read only.
Added to API Depends on the object used to access the property. Generally,
this property exists for an object as soon as the object is