Re: I need some suggestions on a setup...Designing LDAP network structure

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

> Well, I was hoping to get some feedback from some of the LDAP gurus here on
> a particular setup I may try and setup. I think it could really work, but
> im not sure how to go about doing it.
> Let me explain.
> Currently, im running a samba PDC with OpenLDAP 2.0.27 on the backend to
> hold user accounts (using idealx scripts as well.)
> It have also setup a Postfix mail server for our company usage. Here I did
> not setup LDAP but instead used just normal UNIX accounts in conjunction
> with postfix and courier-imap.
> Management has just told me that they want to be able to save all users
> mail on a seperate server, instead of the mail being stored locally as well
> as on the main mail server. 

So you want mail in two places?  I don't understand to combination of
the terms "instead" and "as well as".

> With that in mind, I thought about using NFS to share the drive and allow
> each user to save their mail onto the NFS server.

The user will save their mail to an alternat place?  This really doesn't
make any sense.

> My question is, how, or what type of setup could I use in that I could use
> LDAP for authentication for the storage server?

NFS doesn't do authentication.  Samba does, Cyrus does, PAM does, etc...
Storeing you mail in a filesystem is just *DUMB* anyway.  Setup an IMAP
server.