Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

[Ashley Moran]

Hi people

I recently added a pair of extra disks to one of our internal servers  
(FreeBSD 6.1) to give us a share for our office.  Our user  
authentication is all done by Active Directory Small Business Server  
2000.  I gave the job of getting Samba running an authenticated share  
to our Linux-fanboy network admin.  He came back to me claiming the  
following reason why it can't be done (I assume the second word  
should be followed by "not"):

> Winbind is fully functional on FreeBSD so it doesn’t work  
> authenticating with windows, ive tried compiling the Solaris  
> version which is supposedly meant to work but I cant get it to  
> compile.
>
> So now I was working on a public anonymous share but that doesn’t  
> work cus FreeBSD says that account is not permitted access from  
> that station.
>
> So I know give up, give me a proper linux server or light security  
> abit so it dosent care who logs on from where
>
>
> See bloody BSD, lol


I don't know anything about Samba, so I was wondering if someone here  
has seen a similar setup working.  Is it really impossible to do what  
I want?

Thanks
Ashley