From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 08:59:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB0F16A448 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29A143DB1 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3C05EE9; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06997-08; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:59:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599645C74; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:59:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42E0B572.8000101@mac.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:59:30 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perikillo References: <51d7a51605072122524dba6df5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51d7a51605072122524dba6df5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain? 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: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:59:45 -0000 perikillo wrote: > I want to run freebsd 5.4 and join this machine to my windows > 2k3 domain, i just want to browse with my freebsd machine the others > windows clients and windows clients browse my box, i just want to be > another machine on the domain, they are running Windows XP and others > 2k. Fine. Samba can authenticate against an existing Windows domain. > This is my first time i am going to try this, i want to know if > is posible and wich software i need or where i can find some > information about, i search with google, but all the examples talk > about making freebsd domain member or PDC, is the only way...? No. But it's very common to make a Unix box a PDC using Samba. > Them if is posible, i will need samba software? Any information > or link are welcome. www.samba.org? > NOTE: i want to setup this machine and be my backup server on my > Redmond domain, this is way im investigate about this, i think that if > i want to make one Unix system to be my backup system for window > domain system i need to be another client on that domain, im right or > wrong??? You cannot have a Samba box act as a BDC for a Windows PDC, but you can join a domain as a client, and you can read and backup files on network shares if you like. However, most people would rather use a Unix/FreeBSD system as a fileserver rather than some Windows box. -- -Chuck