Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:36:38 -0400 From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Active Directory server on 6-STABLE ? Message-ID: <B0D7343854E3E0C6E080E04E@garrett.local>
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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
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