INTEGRATE PFSENSE WITH AD WINDOWS

Idriss Satende

Can anyone tell me how to integrate pfsense with windows ad?

chpalmer

pfsense does not display ads. Your browser might..

bmeeks

I think the OP means to say Windows AD (for Active Directory) .

pfSense does not necessarily "integrate" with AD in the sense that it can be a domain controller or perform critical domain authentication tasks, but it can utilize Active Directory for authentication of users on the firewall using RADIUS linked to Active Directory. Here is the official documentation for setting up a RADIUS server for user authentication: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/usermanager/radius.html.

When using Active Directory you most definitely want DNS (and likely DHCP functionality as well) for your AD domain to be handled by your domain controller(s) and not by pfSense. The DNS Resolver in pfSense can be configured with a domain override for your AD domain so that it will ask your Active Directory DNS to resolve host addresses for your AD domain. And you can configure your AD DNS servers to forward requests for domains which they are not themselves the authoritative server to pfSense for resolution (via the DNS Resolver).

Idriss Satende

@bmeeks Thank you very much for your help, you mentioned the points I needed to hear. I will investigate and work on the matter. Regards.