[Discuss] Fwd: Small Business Server - what do you use?

[Steven Santos]

I am using 3.0beta.


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Steven Santos
Director
Simply Circus, Inc.
86 Los Angeles Street
Newton, MA 02458

P: 617-527-0667
F: 617-934-1870
E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
<greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to list
> Greg Rundlett
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> From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg at freephile.com>
> Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Small Business Server - what do you use?
> To: Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com>
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>
> Thanks for sharing Steve.
>
> It's disconcerting that you're experiencing problems with Zentyal because
> the field of choices is very narrow (with some older options either defunct
> or unmaintained) and Zentyal looks like the perhaps the most promising.
>  Are you using their 3.0 beta, or earlier version?  Have their forums or
> documentation not been able to sort out the problems?  I assume you're not
> running the paid version so you don't have access to their (paid) support.
>
> Greg Rundlett
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com>wrote:
>
>> SME is about to release a new version (9)
>> I am running a Zyntal server right now, but it does not work as
>> advertised (Linux clients won't connect, its not letting me add
>> additional drives, Kerbose isn't working as expected)
>>
>> ClearOS is the next one I want to try.
>> ---
>> Steven Santos
>> Director
>> Simply Circus, Inc.
>> 86 Los Angeles Street
>> Newton, MA 02458
>>
>> P: 617-527-0667
>> F: 617-934-1870
>> E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
>> <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>> >    - SME Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server) is based on
>> >    CentOS.  There is
>> >    - Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentyal)
>> >    which is based on Ubuntu.
>> >    - ClearOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS) based on RHEL
>> >
>> > These projects provide an "out of the box" experience that configures
>> > multiple software packages needed to setup the IT environment for small
>> and
>> > medium enterprises (SMBs) as FOSS alternatives to the Windows Small
>> > Business Server (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Small_Business_Server)
>> > and related required products from Microsoft.
>> >
>> > SME Server looks a little old in the tooth.  Zentyal looks to me to be
>> more
>> > compelling and complete (and is featured as part of the Ubuntu project).
>> > ClearOS has a comparison page that shows (of course) more little green
>> > checkmarks next to their offering but Zentyal is nearly identical even in
>> > ClearOS' own marketing material
>> >
>> http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/clearos-professional-industry-comparison.html
>> >
>> > ClearOS seems to have less "out of the box" (requiring more setup or
>> > additional paid apps) but does offer some interesting features like
>> Google
>> > Apps integration (
>> > http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/google-apps-synchronization.html).
>> >  ClearOS also seems to have more thought put into their website
>> > demonstrating the solution in various contexts which is good as a way to
>> > quickly assess their solution in depth.
>> >
>> > One of the key criteria that I'm interested in is the complete solution
>> in
>> > place of Microsoft Active Directory.  OpenLDAP is often the 'answer', but
>> > there are many pieces that need to work together to get a full IT
>> > infrastructure (certificates, Domain Controller, DNS, etc).  Zentyal
>> offers
>> > a presentation that discusses how they integrated Samba4 which includes
>> > it's own LDAP server (and explains a bit why OpenLDAP was not possible)
>> > https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/71711 (registration required to
>> > view)
>> >
>> > Any experiences to share or preferences to describe when it comes to
>> > deploying an IT infrastructure for the SMB market?
>> >
>> >
>> > Greg Rundlett
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