At 11:23 PM -0500 12/30/05, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
At 5:02 PM -0600 12/30/05, Joe Sporleder wrote:
I would hope it would be OK to compare options on this list! :-)
Is MacOS X Server a good fit for these needs, or is it not? How
does this product offer advantages over MacOS X Server?
Of course it is valid to compare options here.
Always! This is a _discussion_ list after all. I find that our
vendor friends like Anita and Paul usually add much more than
astroturfing to the discussions. Paul in particular has a lot of
good info on SMB/AD.
As for iTools, it offers many of the same features OS X Server
does, at lest in terms of Internet services.
Yeah, I remember testing it on Mac OS X 1.2 back in the day. Nice
stuff then, but for Mac OS X Server now I don't really need it.
Where OS X Server scores in in it's File Sharing, user management,
and collaborative services.
Sure. Try to roll your own mcx server on client.
Another option is George's Exim/FTP/MySQL/Courier system at
http://maxo.captainnet.net/installs/index.html. It offers the
advantages of not using system accounts at all, but stores all user
account info in MySQL for its Internet services. And it scores in
that it uses exim, perhaps the best MTA on the planet (IMNSHO).
I like Exim a lot, but rarely venture outside the default postfix
now for most uses. And yes, George's stuff rocks if you need that
scaleability.
Or you want strong ACL support in your MTA. Exim by itself can stop
more spam than SpamAssassin.
--
-dhan
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