I feel I should know the answer to this, but I wanted to verify. I have a bunch of Windows PC's running Win 2K Pro, on three subnetworks. Two of the subnets are served by Unix (FreeBSD) boxes running NATD, but all are joined to a domain being run on a Win 2K Pro server in another building on the campus. So far I haven't joined the two Unix boxes to the domain. I'd like to experiment with setting one of the FreeBSD boxes up as a Primary Domain Controller to experiment with LDAP and roaming profiles. I may be going to a new job next year where I can either do it in FreeBSD or some version of Windows, and if I can master the tools in FreeBSD I'd rather. Does this sound feasible? Does it sound like a bad idea? Are there tools to set group policies on Windows boxes from/through Samba? -- Roger
Sorry for the late reply. On 10/03/2006 06:40 AM, Roger Merritt escreveu:> I feel I should know the answer to this, but I wanted to verify. I have > a bunch of Windows PC's running Win 2K Pro, on three subnetworks. Two of > the subnets are served by Unix (FreeBSD) boxes running NATD, but all are > joined to a domain being run on a Win 2K Pro server in another building > on the campus. So far I haven't joined the two Unix boxes to the domain. > > I'd like to experiment with setting one of the FreeBSD boxes up as a > Primary Domain Controller to experiment with LDAP and roaming profiles. > I may be going to a new job next year where I can either do it in > FreeBSD or some version of Windows, and if I can master the tools in > FreeBSD I'd rather. Does this sound feasible?Pretty much. BSDs and Linuxes are very good at this job.> Does it sound like a bad idea?Not at all. Samba is a great tool and you are in the free software world, that would be great. ;)> Are there tools to set group policies on Windows boxes > from/through Samba?Kind of, GPO is not supported by Samba3, you can use Policy Editor (Poledit) to change a few itens like a NT4 Domain. There are helper tools like WPKG and proprietary tools to help you on that matter, you can check also the Samba By Example book to find more information on the large networks. Kind regards, -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe@paranacidade.org.br> Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informa??o (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE http://www.paranacidade.org.br/ Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
On 10/03/2006 06:40 AM, Roger Merritt escreveu:> I feel I should know the answer to this, but I wanted to verify. I have > a bunch of Windows PC's running Win 2K Pro, on three subnetworks. Two of > the subnets are served by Unix (FreeBSD) boxes running NATD, but all are > joined to a domain being run on a Win 2K Pro server in another building > on the campus. So far I haven't joined the two Unix boxes to the domain. > > I'd like to experiment with setting one of the FreeBSD boxes up as a > Primary Domain Controller to experiment with LDAP and roaming profiles.Just for the record, you should use a different DOMAIN name to avoid conflicts. :)> I may be going to a new job next year where I can either do it in > FreeBSD or some version of Windows, and if I can master the tools in > FreeBSD I'd rather. Does this sound feasible? Does it sound like a bad > idea? Are there tools to set group policies on Windows boxes > from/through Samba?Kind regards, -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe@paranacidade.org.br> Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informa??o (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE http://www.paranacidade.org.br/ Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)