[BUGS] Samba as "domain controller"

[Wang, Tong (FN,IE) @ Nautronix]

Hi Jerahmy

I've got it going on FreeBSD6.2 RELEASE. From memory it wasn't too 
complicated, I got most of my infomation on 
http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html 
which is very good to get you started. Below are some of the good sites 
I found:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
http://www.oregontechsupport.com/samba/?cat=10&paged=2
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch04.html

The samba version I configured was 3.0.25a, there were a few functions 
that couldn't be implemented at the time from samba compared to an 
actual Windows PDC, not sure if there's any improvements with the 
current stable version (3.0.30). In general it can act as a PDC to 
perform domain control, roaming profile etc, can't say too much about 
reliability, I only configured on a test network and had it running for 
a very short period of time.

Hope this helps, would be interesting to see anyone else's opnion who's 
doing this in a production environment.

Cheers

Tong

Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Heyas,
>
> I'v seen this done before.. In fact I saw it working like 10 years  
> ago, so it has to be even better now..
>
> But has anyone here had experience with using bsd with samba to  
> authenticate windows workstation users? What they call a "domain  
> controller".. How difficult is it to make work and is there anything  
> much that can't be done?
>
> I'm not looking for specifics, just general feelings on the subject =)
>
> Cheers,
> Jerahmy.
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