Looking for a mentor/adviser

[Matt Iavarone]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
> I know I am absolutely not interested in muddying the waters by trying
> this with virtualized systems, maybe after I can actually get them to
> work..... I posted previously that I have dedicated hardware to use.
>
> You are also describing a combined network and I have already abandoned
> that idea, so putting another windows server together is not going to be
> what I'm looking for. As far as I can tell Linux doesn't have an AD
> equivalent except Samba 4 which isn't out yet.... Samba 3.x destroyed 2
> domain controllers trying to join it..... Not going to try that again
> anytime soon....
>
>
> Sean Parsons
>> I know that personally if you have just a desktop i would start with 3
>> virtual machines.
>>
>> AD server (windows) Linux server for new AD and then A client workstation
>>
>> Virtualbox comes to mind as a nice portable interface for this. and it
>> is cross platform.
>>
>> issue with that is you will need about 4gb of ram to function on this
>> or there about.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, How would I build this sandbox as a list discussion?
>>>
>>> Sean Parsons
>>>
>>>> I personally agree that this would be great on list discussion.
>>>>
>>>> even if it is using Linux to support a MS platform, it still would be
>>>> educational for me at least.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM,  <sean at theparsonsfamily.com> wrote:
>>>>> Craig,
>>>>>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> Wouldn't it be more useful and instructive to keep your questions on
>>>>>> list? You would benefit from a greater availability of opinions too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, it seems a bit unfair to want private advising and deprive the
>>>>>> list of the knowledge that is gathered by solving problems which I
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> gather would be rather typical for many offices/businesses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no need to make changes to an AD environment to add Linux
>>>>>> servers and/or workstations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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Are you trying to replace, completely, your Windows based
infrastructure?  if so, there are directories for linux that can
replace AD, Cups or Samba printing, postfix for email (although you
can't get the collaboration that Exchange provides.  I guess you
should define they key parts that you are looking to replace.

What services do you need to provide to your users?  Sharepoint can be
replaced with a Wiki (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/)
using MySQL backend.  What are your requirements?