Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:33:30 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own > documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the > foreseeable future is immense. Seasonal example for Americans: > TurboTax. sure. and nei

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Huff
Norberto Meijome writes: > And dont forget WINE as well :) Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the foreseeable future is immense. Seasonal example for Americans: TurboTax.

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:16:35 +0800 (HKT) "Gelsema, P \(Patrick\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do agree that microsoft has the benefit of everything together where you > will have to install port and port and package to end up with the same > result. the problem is that you get 'everything toge

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:01:35AM +0800, Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: > On Fri, March 21, 2008 00:39, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Å koberne wrote: > >> > >> So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper > >> DNS > >> configuration

RE: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nejc Škoberne > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:51 AM > To: User Questions > Subject: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me > learn FreeBSD...) > > > Sorry, but OpenOffice is more

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-20 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
On Fri, March 21, 2008 00:39, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Å koberne wrote: >> >> So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper >> DNS >> configuration and Kerberos authentication could replace Microsoft AD >> controller? >> How about

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:16:35PM +0800, Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: > > If I had the time I would have tried building an network with Active > Directory running on a Freebsd server. Probably would have failed due to > some microsoft specific thing. Point is still that all the features are > avai

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Škoberne wrote: > > So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper DNS > configuration and Kerberos authentication could replace Microsoft AD > controller? > How about a group of controllers with all the failover features? Gr

Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)

2008-03-20 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
Hiya, On Thu, March 20, 2008 17:50, Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hey Patrick, > >> AD is nothing more than a big database accessible over LDAP. >> You connect to the LDAP database, and when you are authenticated you get >> a >> kerberos token. >> >> Clients use SRV records to check for AD services. SRV