Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:40:44 -0400 From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> To: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory Message-ID: <addc34c604102212402391ae36@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041022193133.GA10519@akroteq.com> References: <41792116.5000304@att.net> <20041022190411.GA920@procyon.nekulturny.org> <20041022193133.GA10519@akroteq.com>
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:31:33 -0800, Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:04:11PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: > > > > 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. > > I am in a similar situation and I have very little experience with AD. AD is a massive beast. Where do you want to go with it? Just set it up for fun, or? > Just yesterday I setup a test bed Win2K/Exchange2K with AD. > It is so hard to get around in Windows as I am used to command line. Ugh. You can do more with the Windows 2000 (and newer) command line and VBscript, then you can throughout the GUI. > Are there any good howto's out there for us FreeBSD folk that need > to integrate into Windows AD? What type of integration? Authentication? DNS? Need specifics... ...D
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