Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

Greg Barniskis nalists at scls.lib.wi.us
Tue Sep 19 06:23:48 PDT 2006


Ashley Moran wrote:

> 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.

Tell your lackey to to RTFM. =)

The Samba web site gives a bunch of scenarios and recipes for 
commonly requested configs. Procedure for joining a domain as a 
member server and creating/configuring file and print shares:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#id2559527

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