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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:02:46 -0400
From:      Duane Winner <dwinner-lists@att.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   freebsd and MS Active Directory
Message-ID:  <41792116.5000304@att.net>

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Hello,

Does anybody out there have experience with FreeBSD in a Microsoft 
Active Directory environment?

I am going to be delivering two servers to a client, both running 
FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Apache as the front-end web server, and postgresql on 
the backend database server.

During a meeting with their IT people a couple of days ago, most issues 
were agreed upon, however, the director of IT informed me that I will 
need to make both of these boxes conform to their Active Directory network.

I think what he was referring to is DNS and IP assignments, and that I 
can't just hard code the hostname and IP address as I normally would and 
expect it to work on their network, since they don't run bind or static 
DNS services.

Has anybody had to deal with this and be able to point me in the right 
direction so that I can test this out before delivery?

I do have an MSDN subscription (which I never use), but could try to set 
  up a basic Active Directory I suppose in my lab. I am a lapsed MCSE, 
but that was during NT 4.0, and stopped really using Microsoft as 
servers around year 2000, so I'm really behind the 8ball.

Thanks for any info.





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