Hyperion Hub external authentication issue

I have Hyperion Hub installed in an Active Directory domain - the users still live in a NT4 domain (we are in the midst of a migration). I have set up trusts between the two domains. We have been utilizing external authentication with Hyperion Reports in this environment for several months. With Hyperion Hub I have setup two authentication providers one for active directory(NTLM) and one for NT4 (NTLM). When adding users in the Hyperion Configuration Console using the provider for NT4, I am only able to pull up users in the "Available Users" list if I have a '*' in the search box. If I try to perform a query of a subset of users (ie. 'g*') it returns nothing. The provider for Active Directory works correctly. Also, with both of the providers I am unable to pull up a full list of available users - even when setting the "Maximum Size" to a large number. Has anyone else come across this??? Greg

I would suggest you set autoLogin="false" on rtc:ConnectSessionContainer and call cSession.login() when you are ready (you got the token and have everything set up).
I suspect the automatic login is getting executed before the AdobeHSAuthenticator has been correctly setup.

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