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But! When these pieces has fallen into place Ubuntu is still hard to implement in a corporate environment? Why? Due to the lack of a integrated directory server with nice tools.

If we want to see Ubuntu in a corporate environment this is essential.

This idea concentrates around which platform to actually use. I vote for using "FreeIPA.org" that is a Red Hat sponsored project and it's said to be OpenLDAP-compliant (They use it on top of Fedora Directory Server that is an OpenLDAP-fork).

Why FreeIPA?
1. We need a Directory Tree (DIT) that is functional across Distribution borders.
2. Red Hat is putting a lot of energy and $$ behind this project
3. OpenSUSE won't probably lift a finger developing this kind of service because it would compete with Novell products.
4. Its a fully open project.
5. It would off load Ubuntu-developers to a certain extent and give them time to focus on tasks like integration and packaging.

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after "migrating"/upgrading my server-hardware i realized that it took me about 2 days :-/

i remember a (old, but working) feature of NT4, that was named something like netware-migration. After clicking on it, it took over a complete netware-server with all files, users and services and after all shuts down the netware-server for good.
It would be a really nice thing to have something like this for situations like:
A desktop-ubuntu as some guificated-home-server with samba, apache, dhcpd, pop3/postfix/dovecot/mailsomething, bind, some user-home-dir, maybe webminlike.
That is to be "converted" over the network on a newer machine with as less clicks as possible... ;-)
After all is done i would like to have the new machine with the complete "old" configuration/services/files/users/desktop/ip/name, taking over the old one, which is shutdown at last.

with the new 8.10-desktop this is really hard work, not at least for the network-manager, which permanently wants to dhcp on eth0 instead of taking over the given static-ip :-/

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For example (pseudo-code):

#######################
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
if (return-code != 0)
echo "system was updated" | sendmail root
else
echo "no updates found" | sendmail root
exit 0
#######################

There should be different codes for different errors... such as "apt-get install does-not-exist" returns a different code.

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Server A = NY = User A
Server B = LA = User B

Server A = Directory - CompanyShare - file - test.txt
Server B = Directory - CompanyShare - file - test.txt

User A goes into their File Server system to setup permissions on the "CompanyShare" which was granted from the Administrator who setup the file shares in the first place through a Web GUI.

User A has the following options

- Permit user B to edit test.txt for x amount of sessions

- Permit user B to edit test.txt but be forced to save it
under a different name

- Permit user B to own test.txt

- Send out notification to the Users(User A, B, etc...) that they've been granted the permissions with a link to the file

- Always send a notification anytime a User(A, B, etc...) actually edits test.txt

You could maybe wrap this in with the new notification system(ie:growl) that maybe implemented in version 9.0.4

The administrator could setup all the permissions with a GUI & Console based methods

This would be similar to DFS in the Microsoft world.



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