Looking for a mentor/adviser

[JD Austin]

Smeserver and Zimbra are pretty good.
If you're just talking network drives/etc then Webmin takes most of the
hassle out of setting up samba.
Smeserver doesn't have calendaring/etc but Zimbra does.



On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Paul Mooring <drpppr242 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some might disagree with me here, but I don't think there is a really
> good linux/UNIX alternative for SBS (mainly AD and Exchange),  I've used
> samba + openldap for domain controllers for several clients and it does
> a great job for central authentication / file shares and permissions,
> but not having really group policy management can be a major issue, and
> I've tried a few exchange alternatives, my favorites have been Insight
> from a company called Bynari, and Scalix both have good outlook plugins,
> which is a huge deal for some users, and I've heard good things about
> Zimbra if your not interested in using outlook, but both these can cost
> $ and maintain seperate accounts from the AD or openldap user database.
>
> If you're looking for some tips or help setting something like I
> described up and can live with their limitations I'd be happy to tell
> you more and share some config files.
>
> On 01/29/10 11:25, 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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