On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:04:18PM -0600, Eric Hillman wrote: >So, after a long struggle with licensing issues, bad or broken management >software and recurring technical problems in the face of which Novell is >apparently helpless, the folks here at my workplace (whose opinions are, >nevertheless, not necessarily represented by the following) are considering >ditching Novell Netware altogether and moving to, believe it or not, a 100% >Linux back office. (Well, 90%.. Unfortunately we'll still need some NT in there >for the time being). hurderos might be your answer. It's developed at the NDSU. These guys were here at sistina last week and thier product is really slick. It's like LDAP,NIS,Acive directory on crack that's open source, and built with kerberos. (looks for URL) They use it in production on the NDSU campus and nearly all the colleges in ND are connected to it and are maintained by it. (looks some more) Well I don't think there is anything on the web but if you're realy interested lemme know and I can possibly get a phone number so you can call them. Closest i could find on the web is http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/its/depts/servergroup/ which doesn't say anything about the software but at least it tell you what it offers. It's pretty sweet, maybe overkill though how many users? > >I'm wondering if anybody's had any experience with similar migrations and would >be interested in sharing their thoughts. Any input is welcome, but I'm >particularly interested in answers to a few questions. > >-Any thoughts on Penguin Computing, VA Linux or other companies selling >pre-built rack-mount servers? > >-We want to have a centralized user authentication system. I'm thinking >pam_LDAP, but I don't know LDAP at all well, and I haven't seen any particularly >sparkling examples of LDAP management tools. Any pointers? What about >compatibility with stuff like Samba, or Cyrus IMAP? > >-We'll need a file server at each of our 3 locations. At present we have only 1 >mail server, at our main branch. How easy would it be to get mail servers at >each location? (They're on seperate Class C networks, but using the same domain >name). Is this even vaguely a good idea? > >-Lastly, can Windows roaming profiles be handled somehow via Samba? A cursory >glance at the problem seems to indicate that it can be done, but I'm curious if >anybody's done it. No, we're not moving to Linux on the desktop... Yet. > >Like I said, any input is welcome (unless it's yet another "use Debian" post) >I've got to get some kinda outline drawn up for my boss so we can take it to the >board in about a week... > > >-- >Eric Hillman >UNIX Sysadmin/Webmaster >City & County Credit Union >ehillman at cccu.com > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) Key fingerprint = A69A 118D 710B 8EB0 DC3B D912 2F19 311A 02DD 1908 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001205/ba6c2b2a/attachment.pgp