[CoLoCo] migration away from Win2k3 + AD

[Kevin Fries]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:48 -0700, Jeffrey LePage wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just spent _way_ too much time helping a local
> school repair their very flaky win2k3 server.  And
> then I spent some more time making a failover server
> for them.  
> 
> Question:
> Is there a recommended migration path from a standard
> setup with...
>    * A win2k3 file server and domain controller
>    * a bunch of WinXP machines
> to...
>    * A Linux server with something active
> directory-ish
>    * a bunch of Linux machines
>    * a few (as little as possible) WinXP machines
>    * maybe a Mac or 2

My recommendation is this:

Setup an Ubuntu Server with LDAP and GOsa.

You can decide which services you want, but since you will have WinXP
machines at least in transition, I would install Samba.  Use Postfix for
your email, and if you want the calendars and stuff, go with egroupware.
All connect very will to LDAP, and GOsa can configure it.

Go to the GOsa website for further details.

https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/

The idea is to allow the end users to handle their own user accounts
(Mary can have email but not FTP, but George gets both), and freeing you
up for management of the servers themselves.

Run the demo... its impressive.

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.