On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:18, Gregory Hosler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of trying to convince my organization to move from an > exchange server, to a samba solution, while retaining their original windows > environments, including Outlook clients. > > I thought I had all my issues covered, and suddenly I'm facing a show stopper. > > it turns out that a lot of my users "documentation" has been stored on "public > folders" on the former exchange server, in "pst" format. > > The clients are all Outlook clients. > > I did some investigation on pst files on a samba share. > > If I move the "pst" files to a linux smb share, then the pst file can be > accessed *BUT* only by one user at a time. I am told that in the windows > exchange environment, multiple users could open up a pst folder on the exchange > server simultaneously. (never having been an outlook user, I'm unfamiliar w/ > this particular aspect of windows). > > from a bit googling, it seems that "pst" files are essentially "mailbox > databases", which can include things in addition to mails. > > I have also seen some solutions (for a full client conversion from windows), > that involved creation of an imap folder, and then dragging the pst to the imap > folder, letting windows convert from one folder to the other, but the issue I'm > facing here is that it will still be the case that more than one user will want > to access these folder(s) concurrently. I guess (not sure, haven't tried) I can > share an imap mailbox with more than one concurrent user, but is this really > the best solution ? (note that the client will remain as a windows outlook > client!) > > I rather suspect that this issue has likely come up before, but as I say, I've > never user outlook before, and am totally unfamiliar w/ an exchange server, so > I'm kind of in the dark about what it is that I'm looking for. > > I'll be quite grateful for any tips/hints, pointers, urls, even into the > archives (I've d/l'ed the samba archives, but it is huge, and I don't really > know what it is I am looking for :( > > thanks in advance, and best regards, > > -Greg Hosler > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 20-Feb-03 > Time: 13:07:10 > > If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, > then each of us still has one object. > If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, > then each of us now has two ideas. > > ----------------------------------
I just did something similar to this - but ended up exporting the data from PST files to the Samba Server as it was running IMAP as a server service - it was long and drawn out, but after getting all the crap from heaps of different PST's copied up there, it works like a charm - minus having to have MS Exchange around - all the users connect to a "public" account and can view/change/move/add stuff as they wish - although in a limited tree fashion as you can't add subdirectories under folders - but that's alright. Much easier to clean with an antivirus package as well. -- Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:45:01 +1100 4:45pm up 1 day, 5:28, 5 users, load average: 0.46, 0.27, 0.20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ On this morning in August when I was 13, my mother sent us out pick tomatoes. Back in April I'd have killed for a fresh tomato, but in August they are no more rare or wonderful than rocks. So I picked up one and threw it at a crab apple tree, where it made a good *splat*, and then threw a tomato at my brother. He whipped one back at me. We ducked down by the vines, heaving tomatoes at each other. My sister, who was a good person, said, "You're going to get it." She bent over and kept on picking. What a target! She was 17, a girl with big hips, and bending over, she looked like the side of a barn. I picked up a tomato so big it sat on the ground. It looked like it had sat there a week. The underside was brown, small white worms lived in it, and it was very juicy. I stood up and took aim, and went into the windup, when my mother at the kitchen window called my name in a sharp voice. I had to decide quickly. I decided. A rotten Big Boy hitting the target is a memorable sound, like a fat man doing a belly-flop. With a whoop and a yell the tomatoee came after faster than I knew she could run, and grabbed my shirt and was about to brain me when Mother called her name in a sharp voice. And my sister, who was a good person, obeyed and let go -- and burst into tears. I guess she knew that the pleasure of obedience is pretty thin compared with the pleasure of hearing a rotten tomato hit someone in the rear end. -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days" -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
