Establishing Cross-Realm Trust between Active Directory and Novell KDC

Overview:

This AppNote describes the process of logging in to a Windows XP member machine with Novell KDC credentials, using Interoperability between Novell KDC and Microsoft KDC (Active Directory).

Objective:

The objective is to log in to a Windows machine that is part of an Active Directory Domain, using credentials of a user principal in a Novell KDC realm. Cross-realm trust is used between Active Directory and Novell KDC.

This AppNote will explain how to configure cross-realm trust between Active Directory and Novell KDC, so that any Novell KDC user should be able to log in into domain member machine of Active Directory.

Prerequisite:

Novell KDC1.5 and Active Directory (with Windows 2003 Server) should be installed and be able to contact each other.

Establishing Cross-Realm Trust:

A cross-realm trust is established between the Novell KDC realm and Active Directory so that Novell KDC users are authorized for access to resources inside of the Active Directory domain. Also, because users can log in to member machines of the Active Directory domain, they can access Windows services seamlessly.