Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

[Murray Taylor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Stephanie Bridges
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 PM
> To: 'Ashley Moran'
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing 
> possible on FreeBSD?
> 
> Ashley Moran wrote:
> > On 19 Sep 2006, at 12:51, Bob M. wrote:
> > 
> >> It's absolutely possible Ashley.  We have samba 2.x 
> running on a few 
> >> solaris 8 through 10 servers, one might be 3.x.  One of 
> our solaris 
> >> admins made the mistake of making one of them a domain 
> controller and 
> >> it was authenticating users in an AD domain.  I've run 
> samba at home 
> >> on various releases of FreeBSD over the past few years. 
> You're just 
> >> looking to setup file shares with permissions, right?
> >> 
> >> Bob
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Bob
> > 
> > Yep, all we need is a file server.  We want folders in /var/share 
> > available to users in Active Directory, eg 
> /var/share/ashleymoran for 
> > just me, and maybe a shared one for the office or the 
> design team etc.  
> > Nothing complicated really.
> > 
> > Our network admin said winbindd is broken on FreeBSD so he tried 
> > compiling the Solaris version(!) but couldn't make that work.
> > Unfortunately he's beeyessdeephobic, but I want to avoid 
> looking into 
> > it myself because, well, it's not my job :)  If I have no 
> choice, do 
> > you think it will take long to learn how to set it up?  I 
> don't want 
> > to lose a whole day to it.
> > 
> 
> 
> Ashley,
> 
> This is quite doable, and winbindd isn't broken on FreeBSD.  
> It took me a bit to figure out how to make it work correctly, 
> however.  I have a FBSD system here that authenticates to our 
> university AD server, and allows access based upon membership 
> in certain security groups.  We don't have any services for 
> unix support on our AD server either.  If your linux boy 
> needs a little help, I'd be happy to send you my config 
> files, sounds like maybe he hasn't actually done it on linux 
> either as my FreeBSD/Linux setups are nearly identical.
> 
> 

Please send me the configs if possible as we have a mixed environment
that the IT guys have 
just mandated 'shall be controlled by AD' ... and it was working so well
before under BSD, but 
the new ones didnt want to 'learn this command line stuff' ... sigh

mjt 
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