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  • 1.  VCSA authentication in a Samba environment

    Posted Sep 01, 2011 09:36 AM

    I've just installed the vCenter Server appliance and it is performing very well. However, I can't figure out the best way to set up authentication in my Samba-only environment.

    With vCenter Server 4, I ran the server on a Windows XP x64 machine which was a domain member. This meant that all of the domain users were available as vSphere users without further configuration.

    With  VCSA, as there is no option for LDAP, I have tried to configure it for Active Directory. It seems that Samba is not sufficiently like AD to satisfy VCSA. Is there any workaround, or do I have to carry on logging in as root?



  • 2.  RE: VCSA authentication in a Samba environment

    Posted Oct 07, 2011 08:36 PM

    I've started testing out VCSA and just ran into the same issue.  We use a samba domain and it doesn't seem let let you connect to it.



  • 3.  RE: VCSA authentication in a Samba environment

    Posted Oct 10, 2012 07:52 PM

    Bump.  Any traction on this?



  • 4.  RE: VCSA authentication in a Samba environment

    Posted Oct 11, 2012 09:00 AM

    With VCSA 5.1 and the new SSO facilities, I've been able to add my LDAP server as an authentication source, which works fine for me. It's the same LDAP server that my Samba installation uses, so the usernames and passwords are all the same.