samba - Mar 2007 - samba groupware integration

Hi,

I'd like to install a groupware server in our institute and looking for
a software, which connects samba and the groupware server, for example
for authentication (may be LDAP) and (more importent) to see the samba
shares (user and groups) in the groupware web-front-end. I've talked
this week to the open-xchange people at CeBit, and if I understud them
right, the samba integration is not opensource. Any other ideas or
experiences?

Thanks,
Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Sobchak
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:09 PM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to install a groupware server in our institute and looking
for
> a software, which connects samba and the groupware server, for example
> for authentication (may be LDAP) and (more importent) to see the samba
> shares (user and groups) in the groupware web-front-end. I've talked
> this week to the open-xchange people at CeBit, and if I understud them
> right, the samba integration is not opensource. Any other ideas or
> experiences?
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
You might check out eGroupware.  It can share an OpenLDAP server for
authenticating users and I believe it also has a file browser.  I'm
pretty sure the file browser will be independent of Samba though, but
what you can do is share the same directory with Samba that is in the
eGroupware file browser.  Or, if your file share is on a different
server (actually a much better idea), then mount the file share in a
location that is used by the eGroupware file browser.

James