Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mark Lederer <lederer@mac.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can Freebsd integrate with NT in a large corporation? Message-ID: <20010715152900.R64230-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <B77749EE.3634%lederer@mac.com>
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This is not a decision to make lightly, which I'm sure you know. I won't pretend to say I've done something this large. However, to answer your questions, Samba could be used to replace NT servers for file sharing, printing, and authentication. There is also a new PAM module that just entered the ports tree that allows FreeBSD users to be authenticated via NT PDCs (pam_smb). You may want to check out some of the Samba mailing lists to see if anyone has deployed it in such a large network. Personally, I think FreeBSD is an excellent choice for your network. Joe Clarke On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Mark Lederer wrote: > Folks, > > I am an engineer working at BP Amoco in Houston. I have been using Unix = for > 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 lea= st > while the apps are missing. So my question is: Could a very large > corporation like BP convert several thousand NT file, web and print serve= rs > >from NT to Freebsd to save money. The savings being not having to licens= e NT > 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= =2E > > MY QUESTION IS: Can Freebsd severs use NT authentication methods or woul= d > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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