Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-14 Thread Thomas Kirk
Hep On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:27:31AM +0100, Stefaan Teerlinck wrote: > Most solutions use an "Outlook connector" on the client side, and an > IMAP server as backend. They work great untill your mailbox gets to big, > and than they get realy slow. You can find an overview for Exchange > alternat

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-13 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! I remember StarOffice having a shared Calender with a server. Never have used it, so I cannot tell. Didn't see it in OpenOffice, however haven't taken a close look. Best regards, Jorge-León -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:41, Simon Bland wrote: > Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a > 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. > > Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a > nice way to tie linux machines i

RE: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Shane Machon
user databases LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not as a source for it's own configuration. I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. Also, I'd really like to

RE: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Stefaan Teerlinck
> > Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly > provide a > > nice way to tie linux machines into a MS based network? > > The later, AFAIK. > Most solutions use an "Outlook connector" on the client side, and an IMAP server as backend. They work great untill your mailbox gets to b

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Simon Bland wrote: > Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a > 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. > > Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a > nice way to tie linux machines into a MS

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a nice way to tie linux machines into a MS based network? On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:41:37P

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:06, Simon Bland wrote: > LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've > seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not > as a source for it's own configuration. > > I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. > > A

RE: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Stefaan Teerlinck
> > Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand that's > somewhat of a 'Holy Grail' for us all. Does anything out there come > close to a replacement? The main things this place uses it for is the > shared calander and shared folders - from outlook, and they aren't > likely to ta

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Simon Bland wrote: [snip] > Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand that's > somewhat of a 'Holy Grail' for us all. Does anything out there come > close to a replacement? The main things this place uses it for is the > shared calander and shared folders

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not as a source for it's own configuration. I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Brad Lay
I would say what you need is an ldap directory. The only thing I'm not sure on is if ldap and exchange work together (I'm sure they would). It definetly works with Samba and samba can do the domain login stuff as a side product. Debian package: slapd - OpenLDAP server (slapd). http://www.openldap.

Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
I've just changed companies that I work for, and the new place is a real mess.. One of the first things I want to do is to tie together all the user stuff that's floating around. ATM the systems are very roughly tied together with systems to create users at places trigger by usage of others, I'd l