[Kolab-devel] Kolab and ActiveDirectory?

[Martin Konold]

Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 15:10 schrieb Peter Escher:

Hi Pieter,

you message does not really belong to kolab-format at kolab.org.

> We use ActiveDirectory, MS Exchange and so on - at the first step i would
> like to test the migration of the exchange server to kolab2, my question:
> if I integrate my linux-server with samba and winbind in the
> windows-domain, can kolab use this activedirectory-users? I don't want to
> have users twice with different passwords (activedirectory and on the kolab
> server).

People have done that before. Please check the mailing list archive. There are 
even companies offering direkt support for such a szenario.

Simply google for "kolab Active Directory" and get results like

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69610
http://www.kolabadc.com/
http://www.univention.de/presse_060222.html

I am not really familiar with any of these solutions but I have in general 
heard nice things about these offerings.

In general if you are only interested in the authentification towards MS AD 
simply make sure Kolab sasl is pointed to Active Directory to do 
authentication against it.

Regards,
-- martin

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