[Setup] Active Directory setup for multiple domains one Plone site

[Tom Fallon]

Hello, my name's Tom and this is my first post to this forum. I've been
searching both the Plone forums and googling this problem for several days
and have hit a walll.

Question: is it possible, and what is the best way, to set up a single Plone
site to accept authentication from 2 separate domains?

Outline of current set up:

Ubuntu server 9.04 32-bit running Plone-3.3.4 installed via Unified
installer with single instance.

Successfully set up single domain authentication using the steps outlined in
the following 
http://www.catapultsolutions.net/resources/plone-cms-talks-w-ms-active-directory.html
link 

Desired setup:

Singe Plone site with authentication for 2 separate domains (there is trust
between them but they are not within the same forest)

Steps taken to try and get this working:

Only found 2 links (
http://plone.org/documentation/kb/large-activedirectory-authentication 2 /
http://plone.org/documentation/kb/setting-up-plone-to-authenticate-using-active-directory
3 ) which seemed to detail instructions of what I was trying to achieve.
Other links hinted at it but either didn't support multiple domains or were
targeted at older versions of Plone

I have a second server (mirror install of the first) and t have followed
above instructions to the letter however I'm unable to get even a single
domain to authenticate using these instructions.

Logging in with domain user name (initialfirstname OR
domain\initialfirstname) and password generates this error:


Login failed. Both login name and password are case sensitive, check that
caps lock is not enabled.

Is there a way to use the method in the first link to add a second domain
controller to authenticate to? I appreciate this opens another issue of same
login names on 2 different domains causing problems - but I will cross that
bridge if/when I get to it.

Perhaps I'm approaching this the wrong way and a simpler method would be to
create two sites with their own separate authentications but with links
between them. However there are a number of shared services between the 2
companies so in an ideal world I'd really like both to have access to a
single intranet with navigational tabs set up for each arm of the company.

Has *anyone* out there managed to get this set up successfully?

Any advice would be greatfully received.

Many thanks, Tom.


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