From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 06:02:59 2007 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 8709D16A419 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Johan@double-l.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D59913C467 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Johan@double-l.nl) Received: from w2003s01.double-l.local (dpm.xs4all.nl [213.84.11.61]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8562uKE028368; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:02:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Johan@double-l.nl) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-cr-puzzleid: {968A97DC-A591-4E11-8517-0CE92D7C4AF6} Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BCE8@w2003s01.double-l.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Samba type question x-cr-hashedpuzzle: hSY= ADxz CXwh C80S EWxx FWu7 HN5g HZe7 Il4N I7Kr KMhQ Kgd+ LeCB Mwnh M9bk OF78; 2; ZABhAHIAcgB5AGwAQABvAHMAYgBvAHIAbgBlAC0AaQBuAGQALgBjAG8AbQA7AGYAcgBlAGUAYgBzAGQALQBxAHUAZQBzAHQAaQBvAG4AcwBAAGYAcgBlAGUAYgBzAGQALgBvAHIAZwA=; Sosha1_v1; 7; {968A97DC-A591-4E11-8517-0CE92D7C4AF6}; agBvAGgAYQBuAEAAZABvAHUAYgBsAGUALQBsAC4AbgBsAA==; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:02:24 GMT; UgBFADoAIABTAGEAbQBiAGEAIAB0AHkAcABlACAAcQB1AGUAcwB0AGkAbwBuAA== Thread-Index: AcfvB5uzQTvKtV06QbWkB7l8m/fcmAAeaiig References: From: "Johan Hendriks" To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Samba type question 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: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:02:59 -0000 >Greetings, >I have an ageing NT4 file server that is the PDC (windows speak for >primary domain controller) for my windows network. I have roughly >40 networked pc's connected to this network and most of the clients >are running XP Pro. I have one client running windows 2000 pro, and >one client running Vista Ultimate (gag, puke). >I would like to know if I can replace that NT4 PDC with Freebsd and >Samba. I would like real world feedback from people who are actually >running it. >thanks, >Darryl _______________________________________________ We are running Samba on FreeBSD 6.2 as a PDC with LDAP as a backend. For user management we use ldap-account-manager and the ldapsmb-tools all from ports. It works fine for us. We have 30 clients all WinXP except one Win2k We also use roaming profiles and ACL. It all works like it should. The only thing I can not get to work is the USRMGR.EXE utility. It errors out with an error that a device on the system is not working, but the user is added to the ldap database?? A good howto to setup this is here: http://wiki.unixboard.de/index.php/FreeBSD_-_Samba We also use bind and isc-dhcp3 to get an up to date DNS on the LAN. Regards, Johan