No, I bought the Samba 3.0 Official Reference and Howto book and
followed the instructions. :)
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:44, SEFEROVIC Edvin wrote:
> Congratulations... nice move... a high quality solution doesn't have to mean
> expensive solution as well... I wish you luck in your next step ( " removing
> Windows from the desktop" )... another question - have you documented this
> project of yours?
>
> Greets
> SEFEROVIC Edvin
>
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag
> von Jerry Haltom
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2003 01:33
> An: Greg Folkert
> Cc: SambaUser List
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Samba Success Story
>
> Well, getting off of Active Directory was our main goal. I'm sure most
> here can figure out why. Thanks to MS's "innovation", one can't just
> keep Exchange working with it.
>
> So... we searched for alternatives that were exactly the same, and found
> nothing that offered any clear benefits. They'res just nothing the can
> offer the "Outlook Integration" thing, which is apparently intentional.
> :)
>
> We wanted to get with a standard IMAP server, and we did. Cyrus-IMAP. it
> performs well, is WAY more usable, storing messages as normal files.
> Easy to tar up and backup normal files vs. a massive JET database. It
> doesn't offer Calendar/Contacts such as Exchange does though... so we
> kept looking.
>
> A new project just appeared, OpenGroupware (www.opengroupware.org). It
> started as a commerical project, but has recently been released under
> the GPL. The code base itself is very mature, however the conversion to
> rename everything from SKYRIX to OGo has caused some headaches. It is
> however not Exchange. It offers a lot of features Exchange doesn't, and
> doesn't offer some Exchange does, and offers others differently. It's a
> different product. It's a lot like ACT actually, which some of our users
> love.
>
> That is taking some adjusting by our users, but they'll get over it.
>
> Also, unless you pay for the commercial Outlook plugin, it doesn't just
> work in Outlook. It does however have a nice WebUI Mmmm WebUI...
> *coughhackcough*.
>
> We're using the WebUI. It works okay.
>
> Outlook makes using an IMAP server a bitch though, it does the crossout
> deleted messages thing. Can't store the password properly. Doens't ask
> you when it changes, just silently fails. Outlook is at fault, but
> that's that. We can live with it.
>
> Now that our server end is "clean" we can begin on our ultimate goal of
> removing Windows from the desktop though.
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:10, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:03, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > > I'd like to thank the Samba team for making our switch off of Active
> > > Directory amazingly smooth. We're a small company, only 30 desktops, but
> > > things went great for us. Actually, nobody even notices the Windows DC
> > > is even gone!
> > >
> > > The Exchange migration that went along with this wasn't as hassle free
> > > though. =(
> > >
> > > It's really refreshing to be able to SSH into our file server and see
> > > what's going on!
> > >
> > > Kudo's to the Samba team for saving us time/money and our sanity!
> >
> > Could you share what you did? Along with what "e-mail/groupware" package
> > did you switch to...
> >
> > I'd be interested to know. I am sure other would be as well.
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