From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 10:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD71D37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:32:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GEG00I01WQG4A@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GEG00F2IWQC1O@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:31:49 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Dumb Question PDC In-reply-to: To: 'Linh Pham' , Dave Rideout Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Or if you just need a centralized account repository for FreeBSD, look at NIS. There's a section in the Handbook regarding it. Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: Linh Pham [mailto:lplist@closedsrc.org] > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:14 AM > To: Dave Rideout > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Dumb Question PDC > > > On 2001-06-05, Dave Rideout scribbled: > > # We have multiple FreeBSD boxes. I do not want to have to > configure user > # accounts on each machine. Is there anyway to setup a > FreeBSD pdc, like is > # done in winblows? > > You may want to check Samba's website and documentation which can be > found at http://www.samba.org > > Samba 2.2.x includes and improves it's PDC capabilities, but there are > some additional limitations that may affect your network. I personally > haven't tried to setup Samba to be a PDC to our Windows 2000 > clients yet > :) > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message