https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Failed-to-create-principal-hadoop-domain-can-not-check-if/m-p/220241#M182126 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/1271/sheltong.html" nodeid="1271">@Geoffrey</A> Thank you so much, for detailed steps!</P><P>But before moving further, I have few questions (you might find dumb but would be great if you can help since I am a complete newbie):</P><P>1) My assumption was that the my KDC server is Domain Controller(windows server 2012) where my Active Directory Domain Services are running. In this case Why do I need to install KDC server on my ubuntu host machine where my hadoop is running?</P><P>2) Why do I need to create admin on my host machine? I thought the user I created on my Active Directory on DC i.e. knxadmin can be used to login as admin. </P><P>3) I created KnoxUser container and knxadmin user in that container by following below guideline:</P><P><A href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_4.2.0/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.admin.doc/doc/admin_kerb_activedir.html" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_4.2.0/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.admin.doc/doc/admin_kerb_activedir.html</A></P><P>I hope, its a right way to do that?</P> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:38:27 GMT nhgodwal 2017-10-13T23:38:27Z