John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and email/collaboration).
An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like.
The only part of that debate you can't easily win is the much vaunted "collaboration" services.
Oompfh. Big words. Well: I'm looking for a ready-to-run Active Directory replacement, with group policies. (I think you know about all the nice network-wide configuration work one can does with group policies, don't you?) Integrating OpenLDAP (or RH-LDAP, for that matter), Kerberos, cfengine, and a few other tools to achieve the same functionality, is not for the faint of heart. Especially when it's a hassle to use Kerberos authentication for many services. While I'm an died-in-the-whool Unix user (I don't even use one of these newfangled desktop thingies like KDE or GNOME and am satisfied with fvwm and Emacs), I have to admit that a centralized way to manage all servers and desktop, with system- and user(!)-specific profiles, would be a great thing to have. Care to name an Open-Source replacement for AD that is already integrated, and where I don't have to do the integration myself? Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org