Calendar Server & Active Directory Authentication

[Tamer Shaalan]

Dear All,
I’m the administrator of company network with Linux SLES 9.0 servers. I need a calendar server system that acts as exchange server calendar so users can share appointments, view calendars of each other, reserve meeting room, schedule company wide meetings and much more. I also have windows 2003 servers with domain and AD infrastructure. Is it possible to install the calendar only from the exchange server??
Another request, how to make users’ accounts in Linux server to be authenticated from the active directory in windows 2003 server. I hear that it is now possible.

All replies will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tamer.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Tamer,

There are open source software packages that reasonably mimic the functionality of the Exchange Calendar.

http://www.openexchange.org is one. They also have a commerical version that is significantly less expenseive than an Exchange License.

You can authenticate your Linux users in Active Directory, though its a bit complex.

I recommend Samba with security=ADS in the smb.conf file.

You'll need a machine account on the ADS server for the Linux box and have to issue a net join command with an admin password to get the Linux machine fully integrated with the ADS server.

SEP

[Al_56]

l would also throw Zimra into the ring (http://www.zimbra.com/).

It has both an open source and commercial versions.

Cool thing about it is you can get a VmWare virtual machine pre-configured with zimbra to ease the implementation (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/zimbra.html)

The OS VM's they offer are expansive (RHEL, Fedora, Suse, debian, Mac OSX).

Please assign points if we're been helpful.

Al

[V S Chakravarthi]

check below link

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Productivity_Tools/Calendar/


for your second question regarding linux and windows 2003 server. check the below link

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Authenticating-Linux-Active-Directory.html

chakri