On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:10 -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
Hi,
I need to set up a small server for a group of ~10 employees (all using Windows 2000/XP, used to use a windows 2000/exchange setup). I have a linux server already running CentOS 4, so I'd like to do all I can with this. I thought about using Samba for file/print sharing and OpenXchange (commercial version) to have a nice collaborative/mail/calendar/etc server. Of course, it would probably be the dhcp and internal DNS server.
I started reading the Samba doc, but it is rather long. I planned on using this server as a PDC so that it is not too different from using their former windows 2000 server. I'll be managing this server, which is currently a staging server for web development (php/mysql/cvs).
Anyone has a opinion on this, or better ideas? My backups will be based on utilities and mondorescue, kept on a internal (cold-swap drawer) hard-drive that I would take every week (2-drawers rotation).
Any recommendations welcome, will provide more details if needed.
As far as samba goes, I would recommend that you set up Samba and LDAP using idealx smbldap-tools.
We have been using these for about 2 years in our company ... seems to work well.
http://www.majen.net/smbldap/Samba-LDAP_smbldap-installer-1_2.html
Lots of good info in the above link.