active directory

Getting started with Splunk…using Active Directory authentication

2009-12-05

Now that we have Splunk installed, and we’ve configured it to use https to secure our logins, let’s set things up so that we don’t have to remember yet ANOTHER username/password combination on our network. Splunk is fully able to authenticate against an LDAP store, and what better LDAP store is there than Active Directory? [...]

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Enabling Filezilla Server integration with Active Directory authentication

2009-10-22

updated 2010-08-19  It looks like the fine folk over at Filezilla have added a beta LDAP integration capability into the server product. See the bottom of this forum post http://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11146&start=15 for more information on that. You may want to use their new capability rather than adding a third party piece like I have done below. Thanks [...]

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Recycling domain controller names

2008-09-25

“What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.”Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) So here’s the situation…I built out a domain controller in one location, that had to be redeployed to different location. Since we name all servers for the site they are in, I went [...]

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Trusts Across Firewalls

2008-04-15

Well I had some fun today…virtual support over IM for a perfect stranger. Someone actually hit me up on my Plugoo, and had a couple of questions about setting up trusts across a firewall, so that accounts could be migrated from one domain to another. Here is the transcript, with only his/her alias changed to [...]

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Establishing a trust across a firewall

2007-07-10

Hi there. Today, lets discuss setting up a trust between two domains when they are separated by a firewall. There are several KB articles about this, but none of them (in my opinion) give quite enough detail about how to set this up. I will try to do a better job. For purposes of this [...]

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