> An admin perspective: > > The ground work is already there for small business. Ebox provides all of > the components that a small business needs In order to be successful. What > it does lack is documentation in order to successfully implement it, and > some work on the LDAP. <snip...> > > V/R > Thomas E. Maleshafske
I've been looking at the sysadmin GUI issue on Debian Lenny. I've been experimenting with GOsa because it scales to very large installations, and has plugins for lots of services. I've written documentation to at least get simple services up and running (ie. posix accounts, DNS, DHCP, Samba) and instructions on how to integrate groupware (SOGo - Scalable OpenGroupware). I've also written documentation to install Kolab + Horde, but I haven't yet tried to integrate GOsa with Kolab even though apparently GOsa has extra functionality to facilitate this. I've realised this problem is probably too big for me to do well, which is why I found this group. The documentation I've written is aimed at Debian Lenny, and is sometimes a little out of date but can be found here : http://wfstt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wfstt/trunk/ It should hopefully be easily adaptable to an Ubuntu environment. I'm excited by this topic because GOsa has abilities to also integrate Asterisk, FAI, Fax and many other advanced services. I've also been looking at integrating Adito. Adito is an open source fork of SSL-Explorer... a VERY interesting product which offers a SSH gateway/web-desktop which can for example download third party software (eg. VNC or NXclient) and automagically establish a SSH tunnel for communications - all via a single click of a web icon. It's very user friendly for end users, and is capable of a lot more. Check it out... it deserves to be more widely known. Anyway, I'll shut up now... I've just been thinking about this stuff myself for too long I think. -- Mark Pavlichuk Strategic IT ph. (07)47242890 m. 0409 124577 -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
