From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 20:02:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F037116A406 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from smtp.volant.org (gate.volant.org [207.111.218.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16B613C45E for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from adsl-065-081-071-131.sip.gnv.bellsouth.net ([65.81.71.131] helo=[192.168.1.157]) by smtp.volant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1HgnIr-000Hwa-Th for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:37:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:36:38 -0400 From: Pat Lashley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scan-Signature: 36b95005dbefd494ace392bd2c13e160518c3c4f X-Spam-User: nobody X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Score-Int: -43 X-Spam-Report: This mail has matched the spam-filter tests listed below. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for details about the specific tests reported. In general, the higher the number of total points, the more likely that it actually is spam. (The 'required' number of points listed below is the arbitrary number above which the message is normally considered spam.) Content analysis details: (-4.4 points total, 5.0 required) 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.4 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Active Directory server on 6-STABLE ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:02:50 -0000 I'm looking for a good way to provide a single authentication/authorization database for multiple applications in an environment consisting of a FreeBSD server and a collection of primarily Windows (XP) clients. We do NOT want to use the old Windows Domain protocols; and it doesn't look easy to make Windows work with anything that isn't a Microsoft work-alike. Active Directory looks like a good choice; since it should be easy to access the database from just about any app that supports LDAP authentication. But so far, I haven't found an implementation of an AD-compatible server that will run on FreeBSD. (This could, in part, reflect my lack of Windows experience...) It looks like Samba4 is far enough along to provide the necessary functionality; but it doesn't build and run on FreeBSD; and I don't currently have the time available to do the porting work. So, have I completely missed some other solution? Does someone have Samba4 running on FreeBSD 6-STABLE? Do any of you have any other useful (on-topic) advice for me? Thanks, -Pat