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.