[CoLoCo] migration away from Win2k3 + AD

[Neal McBurnett]

See also "likewise" - now in hardy.

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2350659361.html

-Neal

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:00:03PM -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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