Hi everyone! I've already deployed samba-2.2.7a-2 and enabled openLDAP support. I now have a machine configured as a domain controller authenticating all windows users via openLDAP. openLDAP is also authenticating all of our linux users. I would like to install Exchange2000 on a windows2000 machine so our windows users can do calendaring (sendmail already handles all of our email needs). I would like to keep our current authentication system in place but also allow our windows outlook users to do calendaring. will samba 3.0 (alpha, beta or final) make this possible? i found some text related to this in the alpha folder and under 3.0/WHATSNEWS.txt: "Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos. " does this mean that the actual windows machine running Active Directory will still be responsible for all authentication? Thanks! Ron McKown rmckown@envenergy.com
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 18:44, Ron McKown wrote:> Hi everyone! > I've already deployed samba-2.2.7a-2 and enabled openLDAP support. I > now have a machine configured as a domain controller authenticating all > windows users via openLDAP. openLDAP is also authenticating all of our > linux users. > > I would like to install Exchange2000 on a windows2000 machine so our > windows users can do calendaring (sendmail already handles all of our > email needs).I don't know how exchange works but i'm pretty sure you can join the w2k machine to the samba controlled domain in NT4 mode. I would guess that exchange will use that userdb ...> > I would like to keep our current authentication system in place but also > allow our windows outlook users to do calendaring. > will samba 3.0 (alpha, beta or final) make this possible? > > i found some text related to this in the alpha folder and under > 3.0/WHATSNEWS.txt: > "Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm > as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos. "don't use active directory unless you really need it. better yet don't use exchange - you'll be sorry. It's byzantine and they rape you on the licensing fees... Instead use a web groupware suite like phpgroupware like i do (which can use the ldap db for authentication) People like the outlook integration but I don't think it's worth the time or trouble. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 23:46, Ron McKown wrote:> > > I would like to install Exchange2000 on a windows2000 machine so our > > > windows users can do calendaring (sendmail already handles all of our > > > email needs). > > I don't know how exchange works but i'm pretty sure you can join the w2k > > machine to the samba controlled domain in NT4 mode. I would guess that > > exchange will use that userdb ... > > i'm not entirely sure about this. windows products seem fairly set on > doing one particular thing and not deviating much from it...i've never used exchange before so I can't be of much help to you... bottom line on the AD front.. samba3 can participate as a member server of an AD domain but cannot be the domain controller. You'd have to move all your users to the AD domain controller and join the samba3 server to the domain or use winbind. If you can avoid using AD do so - it'll just suck you further into the microsoft stuff (which i assume you are trying to avoid with samba) Hopefully you can run exchange on a non AD domain... (in which case you can stick to released versions of samba) brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:> > bottom line on the AD front.. > samba3 can participate as a member server of an AD domain but > cannot be the domain controller. > > You'd have to move all your users to the AD domain controller and join > the samba3 server to the domain or use winbind. >Forgive me for being dense, but shouldn't I be able to configure a Samba 3.x server (on Solaris 8) to authenticate against an Active Directory server -- if all the users already exists in AD -- _without_ creating them on the Sun box, and without adding the "posix user" field to the AD record? Sorry if this is in the docs -- I'm still a little at sea. -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
look at www.samsungcontact.com for a great Exchange replacement. -- Christopher Barry Manager of Information Systems InfiniCon Systems http://www.infiniconsys.com office:610.233.ISIS (4747) direct:610.233.4870 cell:267.879.8321 -----Original Message----- From: Bradley W. Langhorst [mailto:brad@langhorst.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:03 AM To: Ron McKown Cc: samba@samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0 + AD + OpenLDAP On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 23:46, Ron McKown wrote:> > > I would like to install Exchange2000 on a windows2000 machine so our > > > windows users can do calendaring (sendmail already handles all of our > > > email needs). > > I don't know how exchange works but i'm pretty sure you can join the w2k > > machine to the samba controlled domain in NT4 mode. I would guess that > > exchange will use that userdb ... > > i'm not entirely sure about this. windows products seem fairly set on > doing one particular thing and not deviating much from it...i've never used exchange before so I can't be of much help to you... bottom line on the AD front.. samba3 can participate as a member server of an AD domain but cannot be the domain controller. You'd have to move all your users to the AD domain controller and join the samba3 server to the domain or use winbind. If you can avoid using AD do so - it'll just suck you further into the microsoft stuff (which i assume you are trying to avoid with samba) Hopefully you can run exchange on a non AD domain... (in which case you can stick to released versions of samba) brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry, Christopher" <cbarry@infiniconsys.com> To: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad@langhorst.com>; "Ron McKown" <rmckown@envenergy.com> Cc: <samba@samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba 3.0 + AD + OpenLDAP> look at www.samsungcontact.com for a great Exchange replacement. > > -- > Christopher Barry > Manager of Information Systems > InfiniCon Systems > http://www.infiniconsys.com > office:610.233.ISIS (4747) > direct:610.233.4870 > cell:267.879.8321Do you sell it by any chance? I tried it out and thought it was crap :) I found Gordano much better and even Byrani. Other options are also Kroupware, RH-EMS and a few others. This is off topic though and has been discussed before on this list. Regards Shaolin ***************************************************************** This email has been checked by the altohiway e-Sweeper Service *****************************************************************