Thom Paine wrote: > I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if > vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. Yes. > My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I > should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. > We need to have an ldap server for publishing email addresses for a > VPN for a nursing home that the upstream can harvest and we can browse > to send confidential patient records. > > RHEL3 prollie won't cut it, so I'm considering moving to CentOS5. > > If I get a nice working test environment working, I wondered about > running the server on VMWare, because the hardware will likely need to > be refreshed in 2 years anyways. Copying the vmware file and the data > to a new server would make for a fast upgrade. Should work if you can afford the performance hit of VMware overhead. Would probably want to use bridged networking. > Any feedback on what I am attempting to do here? Any other > recommendations on how I should tackle this? > > Currently I'm using Samba 3 with passdb. It's nothing fancy, but it works. > We have about 20 XP machines here. > > The server also hosts mail as well. Does not seem like a big load. Pretty easy to give it a try. You can even DL a CentOS VMware pre-built image for Player and bypass installation: http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/ Phil