Hi All,
Some months back I posted some questions/comments on using OpenChange
with SOGo. I use SOGo myself on my CentOS 6.x servers here in our office
and I have two customers (one very active) using SOGo with their CentOS
6.5 server for contacts and calendars, using Thunderbird and the SOGo
connect client for Thunderbird. They are also using the
Android/iPhone/iPad CardDAV and CalDAV interfaces, like I do here, and
all works very well.
A customer whom I have been trying to get OpenChange working for months
with needs/wants to keep their old Outlook 2003 clients and earlier last
year we phased out their MS SBS 2003 server in the push to get them
using the Linux server.
I have found that trying to get OpenChange to run on CentOS 6.5 a
veritable minefield fraught with dependency issues whereby you have to
rpm/yum un-install packages and then attempt to add updated packages. (I
have been using yum and rpm for years, so at least I know my way around
this).
I saw a glimmer of hope with the CentOS 6.5 How-To on the OpenChange
website but this again had lots of issues with regards to doing a
compile of Samba4 from the Samba site source. The build 'does' work but
then post Samba install I was still met with dependency issues so
abandoned this as I was no further than before.
As the customer has been extremely patient with this whole process - and
now it being 2015 I am now resorting back to the hours and hours process
of uninstalling packages, and their dependency packages, and the
dependency packages of those packages.... etc etc... then install the
RPM packages from:
http://www.sogo.nu/files/downloads/SOGo/RHEL6/nightly/x86_64/RPMS
which are at least gelling with each other with some quirks to iron out
the other dependencies that need other stuff removed/updated to satisfy
these rpm dependencies....
I am still trawling through this process this morning despite hacking
away with a VM of 6.5 here and trying to update in parallel with the site.
I now have Samba 4 from the site above installed and working in simply
Samba sharing mode with normal NetBIOS authentication. I had to put in
manual Samba start up commands/scripts for Samba to stay up after a
reboot as I cannot find the scripts or it doesn't seem to be systemd
compliant (not really an issue, it is running like a normal Samba server
currently).
The AD bit will be required for this site and I did/possibly do have
some server reboot issues with Samba not coming up if setup with AD.
(Hence why I am running a 6.5 VM here before I break something on their
live server).
With all the above mentioned story, has anyone out there actually got
OpenChange/SOGo working with CentOS 6.5 using the rpms from this site?
I want to make sure before I touch the current live server that nothing
gets 'broken', well at least until we mod the PCs to use the Exchange/AD
approach to accessing the CentOS box.
If no one has done this using the above mentioned rpms that seem to work
better than anything else so far, I am thinking as previously advised to
look at Zentyal. I will make this call over the next few days and report
back to you all on what transpires.
I cannot afford to spend too much more time on this as the customer has
been without what they need and I have spent countless hours going
backwards and forwards trying to get this to work.
I don't want to leave the SOGo installation out as it works beautifully
with SendMail in my standard models for customers and using other
'exchange' like products seem to gut the whole system and you lose the
control that you are used to at the Linux level - something I have
enjoyed with e-mail on UNIX/Linux since 1987.
Any input, confirmations or suggestion would be much appreciated before
I finally bail on this direction and look to other solutions for the
customer.
Many thanks in advance and my apologies for the long post.
--
As always, I remain at your service.
Kindest Regards,
David.M.Clark (Director - Senior Linux/UNIX Consultant)
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