Simple question with a very complex answer (I'm sure): How? I have a Win2k system running Exchange 2000, I am not able to get rid of this, unfortunately. I have been granted authorization, by my ever so wise, damagement team to move our existing NT servers to Linux, provided they keep Outlook/Exchange and still have a single password for the network. I will have 2 fileservers and the before mentioned Exchange box. What software is needed where to set this up? Is it possible to utilize the exchange server as the fileserver as well, and have it mounting the various shares? Is this sensible? What other configurations can be suggested? Is there a way to force Active Directory to authenticate against a Linux based LDAP/NIS solution? Daniel Curry Systems Administrator CGtime, Inc. 625 Second Street Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94107 ph: 415-348-6516 fx: 415-348-6505 cell: 510-304-7889
look at www.bynari.net maybe this is what you want On Monday 24 September 2001 21:47, Daniel Curry wrote:> Simple question with a very complex answer (I'm sure): > > How? > > I have a Win2k system running Exchange 2000, I am not able to get rid of > this, unfortunately. I have been granted authorization, by my ever so > wise, damagement team to move our existing NT servers to Linux, provided > they keep Outlook/Exchange and still have a single password for the > network. > > I will have 2 fileservers and the before mentioned Exchange box. What > software is needed where to set this up? > > Is it possible to utilize the exchange server as the fileserver as well, > and have it mounting the various shares? Is this sensible? > > What other configurations can be suggested? Is there a way to force > Active Directory to authenticate against a Linux based LDAP/NIS > solution? > > Daniel Curry > Systems Administrator > CGtime, Inc. > 625 Second Street > Suite 201 > San Francisco, CA 94107 > ph: 415-348-6516 > fx: 415-348-6505 > cell: 510-304-7889
I currently have this setup with good success using Samba-TNG 2.6.1alpha, with OpenLDAP as the back-end w/3000+ users. Tridge told me that full support for an LDAP back-end would be in the next release of Samba 2.2.x HEAD branch. So you can either risk it with Samba-TNG or wait for the (more stable) 2.2.x release from the Samba team. There are various HOWTO's which I used to do this, here is one of the best: http://arena.sci.univr.it/~mami/tng-ldap/howto/howto.html There are bits and peices from other HOWTO's that are helpful, but you can get 99% up and running with this information. Good luck! It can be challenging. * Blake On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 12:47, Daniel Curry wrote:> Simple question with a very complex answer (I'm sure): > > How? > > I have a Win2k system running Exchange 2000, I am not able to get rid of > this, unfortunately. I have been granted authorization, by my ever so > wise, damagement team to move our existing NT servers to Linux, provided > they keep Outlook/Exchange and still have a single password for the > network. > > I will have 2 fileservers and the before mentioned Exchange box. What > software is needed where to set this up? > > Is it possible to utilize the exchange server as the fileserver as well, > and have it mounting the various shares? Is this sensible? > > What other configurations can be suggested? Is there a way to force > Active Directory to authenticate against a Linux based LDAP/NIS > solution? > > Daniel Curry > Systems Administrator > CGtime, Inc. > 625 Second Street > Suite 201 > San Francisco, CA 94107 > ph: 415-348-6516 > fx: 415-348-6505 > cell: 510-304-7889 > >