Hi, I'm currently using OpenBSD 3.9 as a PDC on my network at home. It's quite easy to set up it with the simple "password file" backend, having users' roaming profiles and automounting of the homedirs, even for Linux(!) desktop users. You can use the Windows NT4 SRVTOOLS to manage users and resources (but only in a NT4-PDC fashion). The really interesting and hard-to-realize thing is using OpenLDAP as password backend. This is a more flexible solution to manage users for single-sign-on to all the services in your network that require authentication. The difficulities arise from the hardness to have OpenBSD users logon using LDAP without /etc/passwd and the perl script to handle the LDAP directory written with Linux in mind.
This my experience... Regards, Alessio -- Ing. Alessio Cappelli Engineering SpA Viale Sardegna, 37 I-53100 SIENA Tel. +39 0577561346 ----- Original Message ----- From: "stuartv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Org (E-mail)" <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:59 PM Subject: OpenBSD as a PDC on a windows network > I might have just about talked my boss into replacing our > current WindowsNT (soon to be Win2003) primary file server > with an OpenBSD server. Unfortunately, since most of our > work is done using Access databases (and other Microsoft > Office products) we will have to continue using Windows > systems for our desktop systems (for now). This is a mix > of Win98 and WinXP systems. The File server will have to > act as a primary domain controller on a windows network > handling logins and permissions for various shares around > the network and share a couple network printers. I would > also like to use an encrypted file system on which to store > important data that needs to be protected (in case of theft > etc). > > Does anyone on the list have this sort of setup running? > Are there any pitfalls that I should look out for or any > advice that would make this easier? More importantly, does > this sound like a do-able project or am I jumping into a > pile of snakes? > > This project is all part of my devious plan to gradually > convert to an all (or at least mostly) OpenBSD environment > here at work (psst... don't tell my boss). If this pans out, > I think replacing our SQL server with MySQL on an OpenBSD box > will be the next big conquest. :) > > stuart > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
