Hi. I'm still pretty new to getting View working, and am having an issue while setting up linked clone pools. Here's the environment I have:
Samba-3.6.3 is our primary domain controller (with an LDAP backend) that handles all of our logins and authentication for about 100 Windows machines (mostly XP), and all of our linux systems (about 200). We'd prefer to not get rid of this since it all is working fine.
I recently set up a couple of ESXi 4.1 systems and installed on them 3 Windows 2008 systems.
1 - Vcenter/View Composer server joined to our Samba domain.
2 - Active Directory server (running in Windows 2000 mode)...really just there to make View happy
3 - View Connection server joined to the AD domain.
I've created a trust relationship between my Samba domain and the Windows 2008 server. I'm successfully able to log into my View Connection Server system with my Samba credentials, so it seems like the trust is working.
I've added the Samba domain's 'Domain Users' and 'Domain Admins' groups to the AD's Builtin Administrators and Builtin Users groups.
In a test environment I was able to set up a manual desktop pool using a VM I had built (which is joined to the samba domain) and the authentication worked like it's supposed to.
I'd like to set up the linked desktop clones, but when I enter the information into the View Connection Server for the domain and username, I get a message that it's a bad domain name. I'm trying to use the Samba domain here, with an admin username/password.
In looking at the Composer logs, I see something along the lines of "Failed to execute web service call AddAdConfig" and "Specified domain does not exist".
In other posts I saw references to some DNS changes, but I'm not sure how that works, or what change to really make. Our DNS server is BIND and all of the systems are in there. I enabled query logging on the DNS server, but never saw anything come through from the View Connection Server, or from the Composer system asking for anything.
Is it possible to get this working?
Thanks for any help.