From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 10:33:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E509316A41F for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:33:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7988A43D46 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:33:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 10035 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2005 20:33:11 +1000 Received: from 203-173-32-215.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.173.32.215) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Jul 2005 20:33:11 +1000 Message-ID: <42ECA8E3.50908@meijome.net> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:33:07 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4377.192.168.0.200.1122725036.squirrel@192.168.0.5> <42EC8F3E.20202@meijome.net> <1122803853.16431.45.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1122803853.16431.45.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD Active Directory Server 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: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:33:13 -0000 Robert Slade wrote: > I am currently working on setting up the network, and one of the things > that is quite clear is that full ADS functionality is not necessary. > My view is that for a small network, roaming profiles, printer and file > sharing is all that is really necessary. It looks like Samba has no > problem with that. Absolutely - most of the AD functionality isn't used that much, or is under-utilised. the e-smith server sets all these things up out of the box - really nicely done. If only it was BSD... ;) Beto