vWorkspace with Novell eDirectory

Hi Cyrill

"Can vWorkspace be proposed and deployed to a Novell eDirectory only environment?"

short answer: no

I did setup vWorkspace 7.6. desktops for Novell Logon.

In my setup the Machines (Hyper-V, vWorksapce broker, Desktops) are all deployed in AD.

The InstantProvisioning Service on the Virtual Desktop needs AD joined Computer Objects. I Recomment InstantProvisioning over Sysprep. For any changes to the Master Template i just boot the Domain Joined Master make changes and do a "slmgr.vbs /rearm" - shutdown - import new template thats all. No sysprep or anything here.

How then provide Novell Logon to Users?

They need to logon to vWorkspace - this can only be done with an AD or local Windows Account (Version 7.6). I use a local Windows Dummy Account on the vWorkspace Broker Machine and prefill  the credentials into the WebAccess Web Site.

I will not use the Windows dummy Account for Desktop Access because this could lead to overtaken Sessions in worst case.

To achieve this:

I disable pncredprov.dll on the Desktops

Setup the Desktops to use RDP Security Layer - this will bring up the Interactive Welcome Screen for Logon.

The actual logon is done by a combination of pgina.org and Novell Client. Pgina provides LDAP Authentication and creates a local Windows User on the Desktop. Novell Client in passthrough mode will do Novell Authentication - seemless for the User.

In this use case we do not need user Profiles. Instead i use a "predefined" Profile for the newly created user. I setup the Computers to reprovision after logout - so its a one way thing.

vWorkspace 8 with the "anonymous" Feature could be useful. I think AD is still needed for Machine Accounts and InstantProvisioning.

best regards

MArkus

Hi Markus,

Please be aware that with the 8.0 Release we added support for full Multi-Tenancy.

Included in this is LDAP support - I think you may find this works now.

We should be testing locally here with another Customer shortly that has this same issue and I'll let you know in a few weeks.

Cheers,

Dave