From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 11:24: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop03-srv.alltel.net (pop03.alltel.net [166.102.165.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C06D37B405 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lederer@mac.com) Received: from [10.0.0.150] ([166.102.254.114]) by pop03-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20010715182112.TRJM5378.pop03-srv.alltel.net@[10.0.0.150]> for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:21:12 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:23:58 -0500 Subject: Can Freebsd integrate with NT in a large corporation? From: Mark Lederer To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3078048238_499829" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3078048238_499829 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Folks, I am an engineer working at BP Amoco in Houston. I have been using Unix fo= r the last 12 years. The engineering community has been challenged by our corporate IT big wigs to come up with innovative ways to reduce our $500M+ IT expenses. I=B9m sure they want to hear things like scrap the Unix workstations and do everything on Wintel. That=B9s another issue, at least while the apps are missing. So my question is: Could a very large corporation like BP convert several thousand NT file, web and print servers from NT to Freebsd to save money. The savings being not having to license N= T and increased uptime(?). Possibly OS support is cheaper or near zero. I=B9m sure BP would still want NT for Exchange (email) and login authentication. MY QUESTION IS: Can Freebsd severs use NT authentication methods or would that be a problem. Remember, 50,000+ users have Wintel on the desktop. Crazy idea or not? Have other very large corporations ever done this or currently do this? Mark Lederer Sugar Land, TX, USA Email: lederer@mac.com --B_3078048238_499829 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Can Freebsd integrate with NT in a large corporation? Folks,

I am an engineer working at BP Amoco in Houston.  I have been using Un= ix for the last 12 years.  The engineering community has been challenge= d by our corporate IT big wigs to come up with innovative ways to reduce our= $500M+ IT expenses.  I’m sure they want to hear things like scra= p the Unix workstations and do everything on Wintel.  That’s anot= her issue, at least while the apps are missing.  So my question is: Cou= ld a very large corporation like BP convert several thousand NT file, web an= d print servers from NT to Freebsd to save money. The savings being not havi= ng to license NT and increased uptime(?).  Possibly OS support is cheap= er or near zero.  I’m sure BP would still want NT for Exchange (e= mail) and login authentication.  

MY QUESTION IS:  Can Freebsd severs use NT authentication methods or w= ould that be a problem.  Remember, 50,000+ users have Wintel on the des= ktop.

Crazy idea or not?   Have other very large corporations ever done= this or currently do this?

Mark Lederer
Sugar Land, TX, USA
Email:   lederer@mac.com

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