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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051205/e8e896e5/attachment-0005.sig>