Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:24:56 +1000 From: "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> To: "Stephanie Bridges" <sbridges@iastate.edu>, "Ashley Moran" <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F11EF58D@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of=20 > Stephanie Bridges > Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 PM > To: 'Ashley Moran' > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing=20 > possible on FreeBSD? >=20 > Ashley Moran wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2006, at 12:51, Bob M. wrote: > >=20 > >> It's absolutely possible Ashley. We have samba 2.x=20 > running on a few=20 > >> solaris 8 through 10 servers, one might be 3.x. One of=20 > our solaris=20 > >> admins made the mistake of making one of them a domain=20 > controller and=20 > >> it was authenticating users in an AD domain. I've run=20 > samba at home=20 > >> on various releases of FreeBSD over the past few years.=20 > You're just=20 > >> looking to setup file shares with permissions, right? > >>=20 > >> Bob > >=20 > >=20 > > Hi Bob > >=20 > > Yep, all we need is a file server. We want folders in /var/share=20 > > available to users in Active Directory, eg=20 > /var/share/ashleymoran for=20 > > just me, and maybe a shared one for the office or the=20 > design team etc. =20 > > Nothing complicated really. > >=20 > > Our network admin said winbindd is broken on FreeBSD so he tried=20 > > compiling the Solaris version(!) but couldn't make that work. > > Unfortunately he's beeyessdeephobic, but I want to avoid=20 > looking into=20 > > it myself because, well, it's not my job :) If I have no=20 > choice, do=20 > > you think it will take long to learn how to set it up? I=20 > don't want=20 > > to lose a whole day to it. > >=20 >=20 >=20 > Ashley, >=20 > This is quite doable, and winbindd isn't broken on FreeBSD. =20 > It took me a bit to figure out how to make it work correctly,=20 > however. I have a FBSD system here that authenticates to our=20 > university AD server, and allows access based upon membership=20 > in certain security groups. We don't have any services for=20 > unix support on our AD server either. If your linux boy=20 > needs a little help, I'd be happy to send you my config=20 > files, sounds like maybe he hasn't actually done it on linux=20 > either as my FreeBSD/Linux setups are nearly identical. >=20 >=20 Please send me the configs if possible as we have a mixed environment that the IT guys have=20 just mandated 'shall be controlled by AD' ... and it was working so well before under BSD, but=20 the new ones didnt want to 'learn this command line stuff' ... sigh mjt=20 --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material.=20 E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ###
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