My apologies if this is the wrong forum or already covered; I couldn’'t find an applicable thread.
Running Openfire on a 2003 Standard server. Openfire populates it’‘s user list from Active Directory and includes AD users as well as workstations. I would like to log into Spark as a workstation, rather than a user. Workstation’'s network names showing in Openfire are followed by a $. So I have questions:
If it is even possible, would I include the $ as part of the Openfire/Spark user name? (I assume so, but…)
Since Active Directory doesn’'t associate a password with a network name (computer name), what would Openfire be needing for a password? (I suspect this makes it impossible)
Computer objects in AD do have a password property, but for interactive login purposes, it is basically useless.
From what I understand, this password property is changed each time a Computer object authenticates to the domain ( or maybe at some specific interval – I’'m not exactly sure on the timing).
This is commonly used to you can query for all “Computer” type objects whose last password change was greater than X number of days ago, to help prune for old or defunct machines.
Perhaps you could modify your schema and add a separate “Spark Password” property for Computer objects? That’'s a bit over my head but sounds like it might accomplish what you want.
for Spark Single-Sign-On support is planed, but I guess it’'s planed for users and not for workstations. Maybe SSO could help you to use user accounts.