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Subject: RE: Question about Windows Auth howto
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:markt@apache.org]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:28 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Question about Windows Auth howto

On 12/11/2014 18:26, Nutter, Ronald wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:markt@apache.org]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:46 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Question about Windows Auth howto
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> On 12/11/2014 16:50, Nutter, Ronald wrote:
>> I am looking at implementing AD authentication for Tomcat.  Being new
>> to Tomcat, I am trying to check the information before setting this
>> up. The how to shows one part being done on the AD Domain controller
>> and the other being done on the tomcat server.  This seems to infer
>> that I would also need to install tomcat on the domain controller to
>> perform the needed steps on the DC.
>=20
> What makes you think that?
>=20
> RN> Since the Domain Controller is specifically called out by role

Again, where does it say you need to install Tomcat on the domain
controller?

Mark

I had not seen these commands before so I got the impression that they were=
 something that was installed as a part of Tomcat.
Will proceed without that impression and see what happens.

Ron

RN> Since the section is titled Domain Controller, that indicated to me tha=
t in order to
>> I would prefer not to do that
>> unless there is no other choice.  Since the server that tomcat is
>> running on is a member server in the domain, can I do the steps in
>> the howto on the tomcat member server instead ?
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> You can try it but it has only been tested with running those commands
> on the domain controller. They might work on a server that is a domain
> member.
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> RN> Will try it on the server running tomcat which is a member of the dom=
ain. =20
> Just wanted to check to be on the safe side.  I try not to install anythi=
ng on the domain controllers, just to be on the safe side.
>=20
> Ron
>=20
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