On 2/26/2013 10:26 AM, Vick Khera wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Luiz Gustavo Costa > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > I have worked in the Samba4 package for pfsense, not only act as a > domain member, but also act as a domain controller and i see this as an > opportunity to extend the pfsense to be more than a firewall and act as > a new service on the network in a new installation in another hardware > to act as a domain controller in Active Directory with power tools > native firewall. > > > This just seems like a really bad idea to add such non-core > functionality to the firewall. If your intent is to use a separate > appliance as your SMB file server/controller and disable the firewall > features on it, then I would suggest looking at something like FreeNAS.
Really bad idea for a firewall and file serving, yes, but pfSense can also be used in appliance mode where it is not acting as a firewall in its main capacity. So not something on the edge of your network, but perhaps in a VM tucked away in a DMZ with just one interface. I wouldn't be interested in it for file serving, but perhaps for its AD/auth/etc type roles. FreeNAS is likely a better choice overall for that, but it's not entirely without merit/use, especially for people who like using pfSense as a platform for more than just firewalls. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
