join my freebsd box to windows domain?

[Chuck Swiger]

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.

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-Chuck