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Urko M. replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

No, FirstClass is not open source, though they offer a Linux client, and the server is available for Linux as well. But it was here when I arrived, and it is a notch better than Exchange. Good points about redundancy of a single product. Pretty s...

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Michael Paric replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

I previously used a setup like Benoît's; GoSa is a great web-based interface for an OpenLDAP Domain Controller, however when I tried to explain to the (technically-inclined) school staff that you use "this URL to add and edit computer users, this ...

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Urko M. replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

That sounds like a really good option. We have FirstClass in place, and it will not be changed in a while (we have all our users now quite proficient with it, and we can't change too much in one go... if you want to keep your users on your good si...

November 21

Urko M. replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

Just a quick note: Proxmox VE uses OpenVZ or KVM, which is, as you say, in the Linux kernel. It just gives you a centralized web interface, with live migration, which is one of the strongest selling points of vSphere and Xen. The Proxmox develope...

November 21

Benoît des Ligneris replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

Well, ProxMox VE use a contextualization technology that is great (openVZ) but the future is LXC as it is, in standard, in the Linux Kernel while proxmox use a patched kernel. Xen is more or less in favor these days since Citrix bought the compan...

November 20

Michael Paric replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

The thin client solutions I provide incorporate Zimbra as the Domain Controller and Collaboration Portal; email, shared calendars, tasks as well as online document creation. Since Zimbra uses OpenLDAP, I've configures Samba to authenticate to it s...

November 20

Urko M. replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

Possibly my fault was trying to get Nuxeo 5.3 running on Ubuntu 9.10 :) A bit too bleeding edge! The OpenOffice daemon was running, but no joy. There must be something else I'm missing. I'll bash on it some more someday, but now I have other proje...

November 5

Benoît des Ligneris replied to Urko M.'s discussion 'Moving away from Windows file servers' in the group Open Source Server Apps

Hello, Well, in order to have indexing & all running on Nuxeo, you will need to configure Open Office "headless" on the nuxeo server so that document can be indexed and preview generated (as well as several other libraries for other specific cont...

November 5