From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 12:34: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3022837B403 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6FJY5X64237; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:34:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Mark Lederer Cc: Subject: Re: Can Freebsd integrate with NT in a large corporation? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010715152900.R64230-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 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