From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 06:46:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04575 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:46:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from millennium.net (mrvid.demon.co.uk [194.222.140.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04546 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk) Received: from raptor.millennium.net (andy [123.123.123.50]) by millennium.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA12388 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:41:07 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980107144001.006ae33c@123.123.123.1> X-Sender: lists@123.123.123.1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:40:02 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Mailling Lists Subject: Re: 95/NT Authorisation Server on BSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi >>>> Is it possible for a FreeBSD machine to act as an authorisation >>>> server for Windoze 95/NT machines on a LAN? (i.e for user/password >>>> authentication etc.) >>>Check out Samba. It is in the ports. It allows to do this and much much >>>more. You can set it up to be your Primary Domain Controller and it >>>should work quite well. >>Hmm... I'm using Samba already, I hadn't realise it had the >>facility to act as a Domain controller. >well actually not really but it does domain logons... How do I set the Windows 95/NT machines to look at the BSD box for authentication? Is Samba, by default, setup to be a domain controller using the same passwords as listed in [/etc/passwd] ? >and yu can do so nifty things (hehehe samba winnukes any client that >tries looking at certain shares on >my bsd box, but don't tell anyone) >including registry editing/updating Hah.. cool.. too late.. you just told the whole list ;^) L8rz KrOnUs