Re: Consolidating user databases
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 alternatives on: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm Latest Linux Journal (Februar) has a good article on howto replace Exchange servers written by the author Tom Adelstein which currently works for Bynari (makes replacement serversoftware for exchange running on all kinds of diffrent unix/linux platform). There is even a howto : http://www.arrayservices.com/projects/Exchange-HOWTO/ I read the article in LJ with great interrest. -- Venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Kirk ARKENA thomas(at)arkena(dot)com Http://www.arkena.com BOFH excuse #143: had to use hammer to free stuck disk drive heads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Consolidating user databases
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? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Consolidating user databases
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.org/ Hope this helps.. -- Brad Lay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /EARTH is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can! On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Simon Bland wrote: 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 like to have one user record per user. The main systems running are: Exchange 5.5 Samba NT Workstations They've got a couple of Linux boxes, but most of the staff don't have/need access to them. I'm slowly starting to transfer each of their systems over to Debian (from a mix of Unixware, BSD, RedHat, Mandrake and 1 Debian that was there to start with). So what I'm looking for is something that works with Exchange 5.5, Linux, Samba and for the NT user profiles to bring it down to 1 user database. Any suggestions, or directions to look into for this? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Consolidating 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 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 take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. msg07748/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Consolidating user databases
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 - from outlook, and they aren't likely to take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. This is the nearest one could probably come. Took just a superficial look and it sounds interesting. Sould probably help to move away from m$ IE to mozilla alltohether. I'm trying to engage the sysadmins at work into this, with very little success :( There's an RFP on this too. From the FAQ: Q: Will it work with Outlook? A: Outlook does not store its calendar data in an open standard format, so it currently does not support Outlook directly. However, you can export your Outlook events as an .ics file, and import them into the calendar. Q: Can I publish my events on a remote server? A: You can publish events from the calendar to an FTP server or a webDAV enabled webserver. You can also use the calendar to subscribe to these events as well. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:42:40 +0100 From: Silvestre Zabala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#173795: RFP: mozilla-calendar -- Mozilla-based calendar Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:48:04 GMT Resent-From: Silvestre Zabala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-20 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mozilla-calendar Version : 1.2? Upstream Author : Mike Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ * License : MPL Description : Mozilla-based calendar Its integrated into mozilla, depends on libical and is built by specifying MOZ_CALENDAR=1. Thanks in advance, Silvestre Zabala -- http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~szabala/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Consolidating user databases
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 take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. Communigate Pro from www.stalker.com, available for 25 different operating systems. Try it, and you will nerver use anything else anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Consolidating user databases
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. 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 take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. Not sure about the shared folders, but calendar is supposed to work nicely with the ximian products. cheers -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Consolidating user databases
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 04:41:37PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Not sure about the shared folders, but calendar is supposed to work nicely with the ximian products. cheers -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 msg07754/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Consolidating user databases
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 based network? The later, AFAIK. Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Consolidating user databases
Simon, If you are looking at something to replace exchange, take a look at samsung contact (www.samsungcontact.com), it is a revamped/rebadged version of hp openmail. It is commercial, and it does run on debian (well, using alien as documented at samsungs site) as well as some other flavours of linux, and it is a pretty viable comparison to exchange. As for client access, contact contains a mapi connector (similar to the exchange connector) for outlook, a linux client as well as a webmail type service similar to OWA. Although I have not looked at the ldap side of contact (im still evaluating it in our environment), it *should* be pretty standard to incorporate into slapd or something similar. Good Luck! Cheers, Shane. -Original Message- From: Simon Bland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 12 January 2003 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consolidating 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 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 take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Consolidating user databases
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 into a MS based network? Hi again! I'm just usng evolution, which is an Outlook clone. I was under the impression that they also had a server - but apparently not (yet?). cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
