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Since the last months Citrix and Novell worked closely together to provide a solution for customers with Novell eDirectory in place. For the Desktop Delivery Controller and the Virtual Desktop Agents Citrix announced an official support statement which could be found here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123281
Costumers with a synched Active Directory / eDirectory only have to be aware of their GINA chaining. http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/05/07/XenDesktop+and+Novell+eDirectory
For environments where no Active Directory is in place Novell Open Enterprise Server with Domain Service for Windows (DSfW) http://tinyurl.com/yze7y65 have to be installed and configured before XenDesktop.
Due the fact, that DSfW only accepts Kerberos and no NTLM calls the XenDesktop Active Directory Wizard should not be used to prepare the OU.
You'll need to configure the DDC and VDA without using an OU:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX118976
I've developed a little cool tool to configure both components using a simple GUI.
On the Desktop Delivery Controller:
1.Set Desktop Delivery Controller without AD OU to enabled
2.Press Set DDC Config Button
On the Virtual Desktop Agents (WinXP,Vista, Win7)
1.Enter the FQDN of the DDC(s)
2.Press SET VDA Config Button
For those of you who would like to set the DDC configuration by using ZENworks or Group Policies I've added an ADM Template (FarmControllers.adm) into the Novell Integration Tool folder.
Download: Novell Integration Tool
Note: This tool is not supported by Citrix Support and if you have any issues try to configure the VDA manually using regedit or leave me a blog comment.
Comments (5)
Nov 07
Anonymous says:
You've written that DSfW does only support Kerberos and not NTLM. What does that...You've written that DSfW does only support Kerberos and not NTLM. What does that mean for Provisioning Server? As far as I know the PS does only support NTLM?
Thanks,
Michael
Nov 07
Christian Gehring says:
Hi Michael, If you want to use PVS for streaming than you can not use the AD Man...Hi Michael,
If you want to use PVS for streaming than you can not use the AD Management Feature of
PVS. You have to unmark the checkbox on your vdisk. Furthermore it is not possible to
pre-create the machine accounts using the PVS console. You need to create your machine
accounts using MMC or Novell tools.
Hope it helps
Christian
Nov 07
Anonymous says:
Thanks so much Christian. That helps. Just for my understanding: Can I use pools...Thanks so much Christian. That helps. Just for my understanding: Can I use pools with PVS and Novell? Non-persistent connections, persistent connection or both? I'm a bit confused because I thought that when using a private vdisk in PVS there is some relationship between the Active Directory SID of the computer account and the user which gets the streamed OS? You've written that I need to create the computer accounts with the MMC or Novell tools: I guess that means that it can not been done automatically? So for example: I want to create a pool of desktops for some users but I don't want to pre-assign them. This should be done during the first logon. Would that work? Could you please describe the steps to setup a desktop pool with PVS and Novell for private disks and standard disks?
I really appreciate your help.
Regards,
Michael
Nov 09
Anonymous says:
Great to see this, and to hear you're working closely with Novell, but the phras...Great to see this, and to hear you're working closely with Novell, but the phrase "This tool is not supported by Citrix Support..." is a complete deal-breaker for me. Since you're working closely together, can I assume this situation is only temporary?
Nov 09
Anonymous says:
If you do not want to use my tool then use the following supporting alternative ...If you do not want to use my tool then use the following supporting alternative method.
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX118976
Hope it helps
Christian
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