Black Hand wrote: 
On Monday 05 December 2005 18:10, 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.
    

eh  a good and constructive proyect!

  
	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).
    

for a quick samba understanding i recomend to you to read Samba by Example. 
the pdf version come with the samba package in centos and you can read online 
html version in

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/

when samba works like PDC, for your workstation appear like a NT PDC server. 
You can view in samba by example that u need to integrate LDAP in the 
project. For a easy administration and creation of the domain i recomend to u 
the smbldap-tools package. (you can search this one in dag or the more 
general rpmforge repository)

u plan to integrate the comercial OpenXchange server. In the news, actually u 
can buy a combo for OX comercial and RHEL4 for almost the same cost that OX 
alone. 

http://www.open-xchange.com/EN/shop/bundles.html

now u plan tu use the server for samba and open xchange. i do this config for 
a intitution in my country (770 users). I advice to you that you will need to 
modify or the default ldap configuration for samba or open xchange, to make 
both ones work with the same configuration. Not difficult but not elegant.

if u are planning commercial version OX, my recomendation is that u change the 
samba ldap configuration, and use the ldap version that will come with open 
xchange, don't use the ldap provided by centos if u put your system in a 
centos box.
I had great sucess with smb-ldap installer: http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/smbldap/

It sets up everything for you so you can start playing with a working system.  I used it with Fedora 3 and Centos 4.2.  The latter is not listed as one of the suppoerted disrtibutions but it works ;-). 
Use http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/smbldap/smbldap-installer-1.2.1.tgz  Do not bother with the newest series 2 releases as the are beta

The offical samba documentation is very good, but also due to its sheer volume, intimidating.  By being comprehensive it also includes much information that may not be relevant to you.  Good to read for learning and troubleshooting purposes but difficult to follow.

Yiorgos