From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 7 19:18:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968BF10656A4 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4048FC24 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so3666397qyk.3 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:18:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oXydD5UfUaF4GwAZIkpPpf0T+DmGFImDVdADl8X92YA=; b=VnEEWZ9yuqkrxVx/ZOi1lJ7RDi6cl0eGvXm1sRMM9/z2OHts+ys4pjjMhKSf9FPmAi 9XNMiyh9ZvZqtlwmPABnIBcCrjV5CxAqG292Qphkw5pjmaqz4TEtl5uoRdBorkHELpqU VVrb8tH2kJFKzfDXUcWyG98PVN20QebKpI/38= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=m1jIBsN0h2NBgTAdscTxqPheH/EL2fpVrQ/wDf3qGWyFCnezDXZZ/X/6K5bXL3QUh6 J3VaOrYzgg0+v8N9PHVFggq1wfD+dqmwbrOYxoAY8KQxyP3q7dDs4zaCKkwrnAjSskt+ Mic/C308pBvxmGceyMN3SmhmZOD73ix2BqcbI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.71.10 with SMTP id f10mr3251248vcj.13.1244402311618; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:18:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <273384.34545.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <273384.34545.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:18:31 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Mark Busby Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba3 domain controller howto? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:18:33 -0000 On 6/7/09, Mark Busby wrote: > > > > --- On Sun, 6/7/09, Dave wrote: > >> From: Dave >> Subject: Samba3 domain controller howto? >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 6:28 AM >> Hello, >> I've found a lot of this for LInux, but >> am looking for something >> FreeBSD specific. I'm wanting to set up a FreeBSD 7.2 >> machine, samba3, >> dynamic dhcp and dns, to act as a domain controller. Has >> anyone done this >> and do you have some notes or a howto? >> Thanks. >> Dave. > > > The samba howto's on the samba website cover this very well, the only step I > can think of that is a bit diff on freebsd, is adding the $ to the machine > account but it's stated on the website. > Dhcp is covered in the handbook on the freebsd website. > dns/dnsmasq for DHCP and DNS (will provide dynamic DNS) samba for windows networking shares. Samba is still only a NT4-type DC, no Active Directory type of function (Group Policies, user@domain logins, kerberos, ldap, etc) Samba's own password db is quite advanced, but samba itself is still a NT4-type of function.