[Samba] Re: AW: Samba Success Story

[Carl Weiss]

Take a look into Bynari www.bynari.net or suse openexchange as replacements
for Exchange.
I've been running bynari for a few years now and haven't had any issues,
although I haven't used the outlook connector.

If you set up Samba with openldap you could configure outlook clients to use
your openldap server as the contact database, and use openldap to
authenticate mail users.  This would let them have one password for domain
and mail.  Another project to consider.

-=Carl=-

"Jerry Haltom" <jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com> wrote in message
news:1068512066.24451.22.camel at station-1...
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: samba-bounces+edvin.seferovic=kolp.at at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+edvin.seferovic=kolp.at at lists.samba.org] 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.
> -- 
> Jerry Haltom <jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com>
> Feedback Plus, Inc.
>
> -- 
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
-- 
Jerry Haltom <jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com>
Feedback Plus, Inc.

-- 
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba