From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 12:18: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nikts.nk.ukrtel.net (nikts.nk.ukrtel.net [195.5.9.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 676A837B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yura@nikts.nk.ukrtel.net) Received: (qmail 4896 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 19:14:10 -0000 Received: from abn88.nikts (HELO nikts.nk.ukrtel.net) (yura@10.11.5.88) by gate.nikts with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 19:14:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1D2F80.745DE07@nikts.nk.ukrtel.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:14:08 +0300 From: Lobanov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [ru] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: 'Linh Pham' , Dave Rideout , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Dumb Question PDC References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Or if you just need a centralized account repository for FreeBSD, look at > NIS. There's a section in the Handbook regarding it. > > Drew And what's your opinion about NIS from security viewpoint? As for me I'd prefer smth. more reliable. > > > -----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 Best regards, Yury Lobanov. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message