RE: [TCLUG:22973] Samba Exchange Plugins

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

Is this just a plugin so that Microsoft LookOut! users can just point their
mail program at the samba box for an exchange server?  

The protocol that exchange uses between it and it's mail clients is a
firewall administrators nightmare.  It uses like 3 or 4 different ports,
both UDP and TCP, and uses RPC (so you have to edit the registry on the
exchange server to bind the rpc ports to 2 specific ports).  Looks like MS
is finally starting to think about the firewall nightmares they create,
win2k uses port 445/tcp for drive/folder sharing now.  It still opens the
old ones, but you don't need them, it's just for backwards compatibility
with nt and 9x.

I wish they would fix that horrid protocol, then I wish someone would come
out with a decent exchange clone for unix, with clustering and all that fun
stuff.  Set it up once and let it run...

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Black [mailto:blackk100@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:59 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22973] Samba Exchange Plugins


Right. But does any code exist?  It would be fun to torture an NT server 
running Exchange.

Kelly Black


>From: Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>
>Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>CC: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22973] Samba Exchange Plugins
>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:29:17 -0500
>
>Thats because they dont exist.
>
>You have been reading a developers list, this was in refrence to a
>roadmap for future revisions of samba(-tng).
>
>* Kelly Black <blackk100@hotmail.com> [001021 00:06]:
> > Does anyone know where this Exchange Plugin for the Samba code can be 
>found?
> > Sounds like it would be fun to play with.  I heard about it in the 
>latest
> > Samba Newsletter, but could not find it anywhere.
> >
> > http://kt.linuxcare.com/samba/latest.epl
> >
> > The reference was...
> >
> > Note that I've not included Exchange plugins here. I think I would 
>consider
> > that to be a separete project (beyond this scope).
> >
> > Is this Samba vaporware, or am I just mis-reading this.
> >
> > Kelly Black
> > (I need to get new e-mail if MS is moving this free mail crap to W2K)
> > 
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