On 6/2/2012 9:07 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2012, at 01:47, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> 
>> Would setting up our own realm for the AFS server work?  Could all
>> users would be authenticated cross-realm?  (We are not concerned with
>> cross-realm attacks at the moment.)  Would any changes be needed to
>> the users' KDCs?
> 
> Yes. This should work, provided you can set up a cross realm trust between 
> the active directory realm, and the one in which your AFS service lives. The 
> only change necessary to the user's KDCs would be to enable this cross realm 
> trust.

When you create the new realm be sure to also create a new DNS
subdomain.  The cross realm from Windows to the MIT/Heimdal realm will
not work properly if the AFS database servers have names which are in
the DNS domain which is served by the Active Directory domain.

Jeffrey Altman

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