Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

[Ashley Moran]

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