From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 19:05:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C07016A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5AA43D1F for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:05:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I60000DO2B10EC0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6000KQ72B0WCB0@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I6000LXF2B0D8@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i9MJ4C8v001373; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:12 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9MJ4BHg001372; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:11 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:04:11 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <41792116.5000304@att.net> To: Duane Winner Message-id: <20041022190411.GA920@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <41792116.5000304@att.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:05:05 -0000 On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:02:46AM -0600, Duane Winner wrote: > > ... > > 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. The phrase "conform to their Active Directory network" is pretty ambiguous. I would be asking for more detail if I were you to find out what they really mean. > 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. Microsoft DNS is no thoroughbred, but can be configured to do what just about any other DNS server will do. Ditto for DHCP. The only impact Active Directory has on DNS, that I know of, is that Active Directory stores SRV records in DNS so that clients can bind to it (I don't completely understand this, I just see a lot of weird _firstsitename stuff in a zone dump from our MS DNS server). As far as I know this has no impact on the FreeBSD side. Since they presumably already have their DNS server running (otherwise Active Directory wouldn't work) you shouldn't have to do anything special on the FreeBSD side. It seems unlikely to me that that's what they meant. I really would ask for more information. Maybe they want their FreeBSD administrators to authenticate against AD accounts? If you do set up a testbed Active Directory, I would advise you to set up MS DNS first, as I've had what can most charitably be called "problems" when letting Active Directory set up DNS automagically. > > ... > -- Danny