To my knowledge you have only two options. One is to synchronize /etc/group, /etc/passwd, and /etc/master.passwd on your FreeBSD NFS file server and your client UNIX/UNIX-like machines (note that the above files might have slightly different names on OS X, and Linux). I have yet to come across legit technical reason to do such thing.
The second is to set up some kind client-server directory service protocol for your internal domain. Examples include old Network Information Service (NIS for short) originally called Yellow Pages (YP) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which can be further combined with Kerberos network authentication protocol if the directory service protocol is going to be used over hostile networks (setting up University wide directory service example comes to mind). In practice for SOHO behind a common firewall I would recommend using LDAP for both authentication and authorization. Since I am not big fun of OpenLDAP I always use OpenBSD and its built in LDAP server for such thing. I don't know anything about Windows and things like Active Directory, Samba, and even how Windows handles file permission. Out of 100+ people in my lab I have only one person using Windows and I am forcing her to use sshfs to access her folders.
