Integrating windows and freebsd

[John Morgan Salomon]

Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP will work very similarly.  I wouldn't
bother with eDir;  it's a hog and difficult to debug.

As for replication, we looked at DirXML, which is (a) horribly expensive,
and (b) terribly complicated.  We settled on scripting something in 
Perl, which
initially just did an LDIF export on a daily basis, and by the time I 
left the project,
a Perl LDAP->XML export was in discussion.

For 50 windows clients I wouldn't bother with anything too complex--I've
also done hourly passwd rsyncs for a client with a few hundred workstations.
That worked fine.

Cheers,

-John

anubis wrote:

>I have 4 freebsd boxes and 1 windows 2000 server box acting as servers for 
>about 50 windows clients.
>
>The boxes are used for file serving, printing, intranet, database, firewall 
>etc.
>
>In the future all files will be served by samba and all web pages will be 
>served by apache but are now served by those and windows/iis.
>
>We want to implement vpn and dialup access to our bsd router for our windows 
>laptops also.
>
>Bearing in mind that the windows server is the current logon box for the 
>windows workstations, what is the best way to integrate the user information 
>for the freebsd boxes and the windows box.
>
>I am looking at openldap.  Is this going to be a viable solution or is there 
>other options?  Has anyone tried the Novell stuff?  
>
>I would prefer something that will be able to be replicated to at least 2 
>machines for reliability, so basing a solution soley on the windows machine 
>is something that I want to avoid.
>
>Is there a "BSD solution centre" where people have examples of how their lans 
>are configured and what services they are running to solve their problems?  I 
>seem to be able to find lots of infromation on seting up individual boxes but 
>not whole heterogeneous networks.
>
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