Authenticating against Novell.

[Christian Boult]

Anybody has any idea on how I could authenticate against Novell NDS with a
functionnality like Windows Authentication.
Let me explain. Clients on Windows network don't need to enter their
username/password to authenticate. In IIS allow anonymous = false and
Windows authentication is set to on, so the users are validated against
their domain\username. Come's a novell client....

Will I have to get them to re-enter their novel username/password
combination so that at the webservice end I can Validate their
username/password pair in NDS or is there a way to get the IIS box to
authenticate the Novell user without passing the username/password info.
Any ideas on this ?
Thanks.

Chris.

[Keith]

You're essentially trying to do pass-through NTLM
authentication against NDS. Novell has a solution for
this called "NDS Authentication Services".
Unfortunately, either that product is now wrapped into
something else or at the end of its life.

Here's a link:

[url]http://developer.novell.com/ndk/nds-as.htm[/url]

I'd call Novell if I were you and find out the complete
answer.

>-----Original Message-----
>Anybody has any idea on how I could authenticate against

Novell NDS with a

>functionnality like Windows Authentication.
>Let me explain. Clients on Windows network don't need to

enter their

>username/password to authenticate. In IIS allow

anonymous = false and

>Windows authentication is set to on, so the users are

validated against

>their domain\username. Come's a novell client....
>
>Will I have to get them to re-enter their novel

username/password

>combination so that at the webservice end I can Validate

their

>username/password pair in NDS or is there a way to get

the IIS box to

>authenticate the Novell user without passing the

username/password info.

>Any ideas on this ?
>Thanks.
>
>Chris.
>
>
>.
>