FreeBSD and Active Directory

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Thu Jun 26 19:47:58 UTC 2008


At 02:20 PM 6/26/2008, Chris Edwards wrote:
>I have been put in charge of creating a single sign-on mechanism for our
>Windows 2003 and FreeBSD servers.  We are wanting to use Active Directory as
>our LDAP server.  I know of four different methods that could possibly work.
>
>1. OpenLDAP
>2. Radius
>3. NIS
>4. WinBind / Samba
>
>Which is the most excepted/supported way to do this?  Several of the severs
>are very old, 4+ years old.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>---
>
>Chris Edwards

I have had no trouble using winbind/samba as a secondary controller to the 
Windows 2003 AD server.  I will say that not all the utilities work, but 
the functionality does work just fine.

         -Derek

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