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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:09:03 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > SME Server from www.contribs.org will do the job as a combined > e-mail/file server with domain authentication (and with a bit of > tweaking I managed to get an Ubuntu box to authenticate to it). It > also supports roaming profiles and it has an easy(ish) to use web > interface. It works fine with XP but I'm not sure about Vista, I > presume that it requires encrypted passwords (I vaguely remember an > old version of SME Server not supporting encrypted passwords only > plaintext passwords but now with 7.4 it works fine with XP without > any changes to XP). > > Doing a search to see if it'll work on SME Server I came across > this... > > http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,38239.0.html > > and this... > > http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746 > > By the sounds of things, the second link might actually be what you > need to do to the Vista boxes to get them to work with Debian & Samba. > > HTH > > Rob Thanks Rob. It's been a while since I played around with E-Smith as it was then. Just installed in a VM and playing with it now. It looks good. If I can sort out the Vista thing, then I am sorely tempted to go with this. Shame it's not Debian based. That'd be excellent then! ;D Cheers. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html