ESXi 5.5U2 - Domainlogin problems SSO

[jholzhause]

Hi guys,

last week i set up our new esxi server.

Following problem:

the users can only login with intern.xxx.de\User1.User1

Normally it should work with the short name of the Domain: XXX\user1.user1

If the user types the short name  xxx\user1.user1 the credentials work...

So our users actually can't use single sign on.

any ideas to fix the problem?

thanks!

[schepp]

Hi and welcome to the communities,

did you join a single ESXi server to the domain? Or did you use a vCenter and added your domain as an identity source to VMwares SSO?

Tim

[jholzhause]

Hi,

thank you 🙂

There is no vCenter running, stand alone esxi server with vsphere standard license

[schepp]

Ok,

please take a look at the hostd log: /var/log/hostd.log

failed logins are loged there, maybe you can find a hint there

[jholzhause]

No failed login in the log file. only shows successful logins/logouts 😕

[Abukar]

Did you add the domain to your ESXi? Check this article below

Joining vSphere Hosts to Active Directory | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

[jholzhause]

if we say use windows credentials it doesn't work.(XXX/Username)

if he types the Windows credentials writing style - it works (XXX/Username)

if he types the fqdn of the domain before the username - it works  (intern.xxx.de/Username)

So it is a SSO problem.

The host is joined the domain with help of vmware article.

[Abukar]

SSO is not involved in this case because you are not using vCenter. Did you create DNS records for your host?

[jholzhause]

SSO is working on our old server without vcenter too - why is this not working with 5.5? any changes?

dns records exist.