I have OpenLDAP running on FreeBSD 6.x. Simple, effective and reliable. You
can do the same with Active Directory, but you will need Windows 2003. Msg
me offlist if you want to talk about it more.

On 4/25/07, Pat Lashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm looking for a good way to provide a single
authentication/authorization
database for multiple applications in an environment consisting of a
FreeBSD
server and a collection of primarily Windows (XP) clients.  We do NOT want
to use the old Windows Domain protocols; and it doesn't look easy to make
Windows work with anything that isn't a Microsoft work-alike.

Active Directory looks like a good choice; since it should be easy to
access
the database from just about any app that supports LDAP
authentication.  But
so far, I haven't found an implementation of an AD-compatible server that
will
run on FreeBSD.  (This could, in part, reflect my lack of Windows
experience...)

It looks like Samba4 is far enough along to provide the necessary
functionality;
but it doesn't build and run on FreeBSD; and I don't currently have the
time
available to do the porting work.

So, have I completely missed some other solution?  Does someone have
Samba4
running on FreeBSD 6-STABLE?  Do any of you have any other useful
(on-topic)
advice for me?



Thanks,
-Pat
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