Re: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain

[subsolar at subsolar.com (Paul)]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:22, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > > I know, but I don't want to manage users on 2 servers...
> > > What helps with that? Winbind?
> > 
> > PREABMLE:  The fact that you have chosen Exchange 2000 means
> > you are _stuck_ with Active Directory Services (ADS).  Unless
> > you want to chuck Exchange, you are _stuck_ with keeping your
> > ADS.
> 
> You use 'chosen' above as to suggest that there are equivalent
> alternatives.  Are there -  for an organization that lives
> and dies by the scheduling features and shared folders in exchange?

I can think of Groupwise being one that would be feature equivalent that
has been available for some time.  As far as open-source ones they all
seem to have feature gaps.

Paul