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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Let's Recover!
« on: September 29, 2011, 02:33:50 am »
Did OP ever find a solution for this? I, too, am trying to test out various recovery scenarios and finding it difficult.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 19, 2011, 10:33:08 pm »
Thanks for all the help and good ideas. I'm sure I'll be back here with more question as I start to integrate all the systems.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 18, 2011, 10:25:58 pm »
A lot of the existing environment has to do more with legacy than anything else. Thunderbird is there because prior to running zimbra, their mail server is just postfix and courier. People are used to the mail client and didn't really have a reason to move.
The main use for the PCs is to access a homegrown php webapp. That app handles all of their erp as well as HR functions. It wouldn't be very disruptive if I slowly switch some people to ubuntu as long as they get a mail client and a browser to access the homegrown app. The only hiccup would be that everyone's used to having local admin rights and are used to installing things on a whim (flash player, pdf creator, spotify, etc).
As for SSO, any bit of "reduced" sign on would be appreciated. Maybe a desktop password manager is the easier way to go.
The main use for the PCs is to access a homegrown php webapp. That app handles all of their erp as well as HR functions. It wouldn't be very disruptive if I slowly switch some people to ubuntu as long as they get a mail client and a browser to access the homegrown app. The only hiccup would be that everyone's used to having local admin rights and are used to installing things on a whim (flash player, pdf creator, spotify, etc).
As for SSO, any bit of "reduced" sign on would be appreciated. Maybe a desktop password manager is the easier way to go.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 18, 2011, 08:22:29 pm »
I'm beginning to see why the client's setup is the way it is... there's really no impetus in moving to a DC environment with SSO and resource management. The 20 or so client PCs are a mix of home/pro versions of xp and win7. The users are not demanding at all, half of them don't login to the PC everyday. Only a couple of people check e-mail on the road.
I'll try to bring up a test zentyal system and see where the benefit may be. Might be cheaper and better for the client to keep things as they are and just maintain them. I was just hoping for a cleaner way of administering the environment.
I'll try to bring up a test zentyal system and see where the benefit may be. Might be cheaper and better for the client to keep things as they are and just maintain them. I was just hoping for a cleaner way of administering the environment.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 18, 2011, 04:58:38 am »
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into Zafara. It'll probably not be an issue replacing zimbra, and client's using it just as a mail server. On the desktop side they're using thunderbird.
On to my next question... how easy would it be to move Zentyal from the 32-bit version to the 64-bit version? As I'm limited on the available hardware, my plan would be to start implementing zentyal as a DC on a 32-bit box. Once I get the client PCs hooked up and all the users setup, if I go for migrating to zafara, I'd want to migrate to the 64-bit hardware that the zimbra box is currently occupying.
On to my next question... how easy would it be to move Zentyal from the 32-bit version to the 64-bit version? As I'm limited on the available hardware, my plan would be to start implementing zentyal as a DC on a 32-bit box. Once I get the client PCs hooked up and all the users setup, if I go for migrating to zafara, I'd want to migrate to the 64-bit hardware that the zimbra box is currently occupying.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 18, 2011, 12:38:13 am »
Hmm, I was hoping to not have to touch the Zimbra install much as its working well for them. The homegrown webapp currently stores user authentication inside the mysql db. My plan is to re-write it a bit to do LDAP auth once I get a domain controller setup.
I haven't setup a test Zentyal system yet, but is it pretty clean to stop/remove the mail portion? I can just keep the zimbra server on its own and figure out a way to sync passwords.
I haven't setup a test Zentyal system yet, but is it pretty clean to stop/remove the mail portion? I can just keep the zimbra server on its own and figure out a way to sync passwords.
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Installation and Upgrades / Ideas for integrating Zentyal into existing environment?
« on: August 17, 2011, 11:54:29 pm »
Hello,
I have a client with 20 or so PCs around the office without any domain controllers, users have their own local logins. There's a homegrown intranet app running on an old linux box with its own authentication system, and a Zimbra install on another linux box. Each users have 3 different login ID/passwords, one for the local PC, another for the intranet webapp, and another for Zimbra. There's a few network printers scattered around the office and the users connect to those via IP addresses.
I'm looking for some ideas on how to start integrating all of the systems together, getting them onto a domain login type authentication scheme and adding in VPN capability. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to accomplish this with Zentyal? My first thought is that the LDAP from Zimbra could probably serve as the authoritative one, has something like this been done in the past? Or is it a better practice to replicate the directory?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I have a client with 20 or so PCs around the office without any domain controllers, users have their own local logins. There's a homegrown intranet app running on an old linux box with its own authentication system, and a Zimbra install on another linux box. Each users have 3 different login ID/passwords, one for the local PC, another for the intranet webapp, and another for Zimbra. There's a few network printers scattered around the office and the users connect to those via IP addresses.
I'm looking for some ideas on how to start integrating all of the systems together, getting them onto a domain login type authentication scheme and adding in VPN capability. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to accomplish this with Zentyal? My first thought is that the LDAP from Zimbra could probably serve as the authoritative one, has something like this been done in the past? Or is it a better practice to replicate the directory?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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