[From nobody Tue Jul 9 10:02:41 2013 Message-ID: <41BDB5A2.9050505@k-team.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:30:42 +0100 From: Antoine Boegli <aboegli@k-team.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de> Subject: Re: Some various questions about Kolab 1 References: <41BD9198.8030702@k-team.com> <200412131437.01740.bernhard@intevation.de> In-Reply-To: <200412131437.01740.bernhard@intevation.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bernhard Reiter wrote: >On Monday 13 December 2004 13:56, Antoine Boegli wrote: > > >>I'm new here, and I have some n00b questions about the settings of a >>working Kolab1 server :) Care to give me some answer ? Yes ? Thank you >>all. ;) >> >> > >Hi, welcome! > > > >>The setup : >> >>- The network contain Mandrake boxes, Windows 2k and XP boxes. The >>server is a MDK10.1, with a P3 450MHz, 512MB, 20GB HD, etc. A very basic >>config. >> >> > >What kind of client software? > > > Kontact 1.0 and Outlook 2k3 On the Suse 9.1 there is an older version of Kontact, but that box will go all the way to Mandrake since I'm not fluent enough in Yast use to upgrade Kontact to the v1.0 >>- I need to have a mail server, a shared calendar and some basic >>groupware tools, with access from KDE, Mozilla, Evolution and Outlook. >>Reducing the list to Kontact and Outlook, I can use Kolab 1. >> >>- I have made the install, solved a strange problem of configuration in >>Postfix (it doesn't give the mails to the imap server). >> >>- All the users are purely virtuals (aka no system user). >> >>- On a side note, every Linux boxes mount their /home through a NFS >>server, authenticating with a NIS service. >> >> > >Make sure that cyrus imapd uses a non-nfs volume, >otherwise you will have problems. > > Mmh. By this, you mean on the server side or on the client side ? Where are the directories used by Cyrus ? > > >>Now, the questions : >> >>1) I am not able to access the calendar. Something doesn't work with the >>IMAP but I have not found what. Any idea ? The mail are ok, but it's all. >> >> > >Events are saved inside of emails, if you can access emails with IMAP >you can also use Kolab clients. You only need to configure them. > > Ok. I get the mails with the events, but when clicking on the "Accept event" link, Kontact do nothing at all. I'm somewhat flabergasted (i like this word) about what to configure for it to work, having followed the doc on the website. >For Outlook this means getting proprietary plug-in and we recomment Toltec. >Toltec 1.9.x is stable and can do Kolab1. > > Ok. It seems to be a good one. > > >>2) Should I use the Kolab 2 ? And if yes, can I use it with an Outlook >>plug-in ? >> >> > >Toltec 2.x for Kolab2 is under development, it has reached early beta. > > Then I'll have to stay with Kolab1. For the moment at least. > > >>3) Where can i found a detailed "how to" for troubleshooting the Kolab >>groupware ?? (I have to admit, to my great shame, that I am not a German >>speaker at all, even if I'm Swiss...) >> >> > >The Kolab1 and Kolab2 architecure papers give you an idea >how the whole system works. The components, like openldap, postfix >and Cyrus imapd are then intensively documented outside of Kolab Server. > > Ok, thank you. I'll read them as soon as possible. > > >>More advanced questions : >> >>4) Does anyone use the Kolab server as a Posix authentificator ? >> >> > >What do you mean by that precisely? > > Well... a PAM, using LDAP instead of the /etc/passwd file >I think people do, the problem is that you need to have the right >structure and information in the LDAP-tree. >Kolab2's ldap tree is more flexible in this regard then Kolab1's ldap tree. >This is almost orthogonal to Kolab as we did not build in authentification >to other services, though the can be connected. > > > >>5) If yes, what should I do to preserve the NFS shares ? >> >> > > > > Ok, thank you for your patience, Regards, -- Antoine Boegli k-team.com ]