@Kibrom Gebrehiwot This is the Sandbox connection issue right? Did you follow the suggestions I gave at https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/12846/how-to-solve-connection-refused-errors-in-hdp.html#comment-13052 I think you re trying to use the Sandbox in a way it is not intended also. It is not intended to sit on a headless server, and have multiple people access it. It is intended to sit on your desktop, once desktop with a NAT network interface. If you want multiple people to access a cluster, you should build your own. See this experience from someone else https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/8581/alert-on-sandboxhortonworkscom-hdp-232.html#answer-11170 ... View more

Yes. I do recommend the following course of action: Setup Ambari with Both LDAP and SSL first Then setup HiveServer2 with LDAP SSL. See the following on HCC: https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/1522/how-to-setup-hiveserver2-authentication-with-ldap.html and HW docs here Then you can turn SSL On for Hive also. See http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.4/bk_Security_Guide/content/ch_wire-hiveserver2.html Then test in Beeline LDAPs authentication with ssl=true Optionally you can setup Knox also with another HiveServer2 for just HTTPs Then do the Kerberos Wizard ... View more