From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 06:10:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA00654 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA00638 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA15540; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:08:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015538; Wed Jan 7 06:08:28 1998 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 06:05:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: phil grainger cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 95/NT Authorisation Server on BSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980107231535.00832680@pop.sphynx.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually tha samba team have most of the Domain controller stuff working.. (in alpha form) On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, phil grainger wrote: > well actually not really > but it does domain logons > and yu can do so nifty things > (hehehe samba winnukes any client that tries looking at certain shares on > my bsd box, but don't tell anyone) > including registry editing/updating > catcha > At 08:49 PM 1/6/98 +0000, you wrote: > > > >Hi > > > > > >>> Is it possible for a FreeBSD machine to act as an authorisation > >>> server for Windoze 95/NT machines on a LAN? (i.e for user/password > >>> authentication etc.) > >>Check out Samba. It is in the ports. It allows to do this and much much > >>more. You can set it up to be your Primary Domain Controller and it > >>should work quite well. > > > >Hmm... I'm using Samba already, I hadn't realise it had the > >facility to act as a Domain controller. > > > >Thanks > > > >KrOnUs >