[Kolab-devel] why not ship Kolab with Samba by default?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Martin Konold wrote:

>  > option, not enabled by default (like Horde is now).
> 
> I am afraid that people start to think that Kolab is the perfect Samba 
> solution and therefore many Samba related support request(*) start 
> popping up.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> -- martin
> 
> (*) As soon as you start using samba for non trivial purposes including 
> PDC, BDC, printer driver, printing and ACLs things become hairy for the 
> plain reason that Samba tries to offer a mapping between unix/posix and 
> Windows with regards to these properties.
> 
> It is simply IMPOSSIBLE to get such a mapping right in all corner cases. 
> E.g. there is no sufficently good counterpart to SIDs. Windows ACLs are 
> very different from POSIX ACLs,....

There is a good list which deals with Samba: lists.samba.org. Just 
teach/tell users to use it.

And if you're talking about commercial support, it's a good opportunity 
to earn additional money.

Do you have many support questions regarding Apache, Postfix, OpenLDAP 
or Cyrus?

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org