From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 15:02:49 2004 Return-Path: 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 2699116A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F8B43D5D for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:02:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwinner-lists@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [10.10.100.90] (unknown[216.113.237.29]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004102215024711100j83fge> (Authid: duanewinner); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:02:48 +0000 Message-ID: <41792116.5000304@att.net> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:02:46 -0400 From: Duane Winner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: freebsd and MS Active Directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dwinner-lists@att.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:02:49 -0000 Hello, Does anybody out there have experience with FreeBSD in a Microsoft Active Directory environment? I am going to be delivering two servers to a client, both running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Apache as the front-end web server, and postgresql on the backend database server. During a meeting with their IT people a couple of days ago, most issues were agreed upon, however, the director of IT informed me that I will need to make both of these boxes conform to their Active Directory network. I think what he was referring to is DNS and IP assignments, and that I can't just hard code the hostname and IP address as I normally would and expect it to work on their network, since they don't run bind or static DNS services. Has anybody had to deal with this and be able to point me in the right direction so that I can test this out before delivery? I do have an MSDN subscription (which I never use), but could try to set up a basic Active Directory I suppose in my lab. I am a lapsed MCSE, but that was during NT 4.0, and stopped really using Microsoft as servers around year 2000, so I'm really behind the 8ball. Thanks for any info.