From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 23 08:10:25 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 0E39B16A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:10:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C388243D46 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I61003CI2FIFA20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6100GEQ2FIWKA0@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I610003V2FIUE@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i9N84T8v003094; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:30 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9N84T6E003093; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:29 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:04:29 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <4179D945.8070202@att.net> To: Duane Winner Message-id: <20041023080429.GC920@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <41792116.5000304@att.net> <20041022190411.GA920@procyon.nekulturny.org> <4179D945.8070202@att.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Danny MacMillan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:10:25 -0000 On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:08:37PM -0600, Duane Winner wrote: > > ... > > Is it possible they are using DHCP for all hosts -- even servers, but > doing static mapping to MAC address? If so, are there instances where AD > hosts must configured as AD leaf objects? (I'm just scraping the back of I should point out that I'm no Active Directory guru. We use AD to hold login accounts, groups, computers, &c. Vanilla stuff. If there's some kind of voodoo chocolate or strawberry Active Directory stuff, we don't do it. But from my understanding, the answer to your above question is 'no'. Our FreeBSD server is in exactly the position you describe. It obtains its address via DHCP; it always gets the same reserved address. Our Active Directory is completely ignorant of the existence of the FreeBSD machine. IP addresses are provided by DHCP, not AD, and names are provided by DNS, not AD. AD registers names in DNS but it doesn't control DNS (i.e. it won't destroy what you put there yourself). Note that our DNS is not backed by LDAP, as I've heard is possible. In that case AD might take a more pivotal role. I'd be interested to know, once this is all over, if that's what they have going on. > > ... > -- Danny