Ximian Connector 1.0 Available

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Ximian Connector is out! Regardless if you don't like open source and Microsoft playing together this will let me ditch my Win2k box at work! Here is the press release. Of note, MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well, works wonderfully in Galeon." kittenslietome adds a link to the license under which it's released as well: Connector is not Free software, but rather software Ximian hopes will pay for further Free software development.

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[Yoda2]

There is a new product called InsightConnecter available from Bynari that allows you to replace MS Exchange with a standard IMAP server. This is a good solution for those who are stuck using Outlook, but have access to a Linux server and don't want to use Exchange. It works as an Outlook Add-In and "tricks" Outlook into thinking that the IMAP server is Exchange Server.

It is not free, but very reasonably priced.

You can also find a brief summary of it here.

Can't ditch my Win2k box just yet.

[thesolo]

Unfortunately, even with Ximian Connector, I still can't totally get rid of my Win2k box. Why, you may ask??

NT Authentication

I can use Linux for development, I can use Evolution now to integrate with Outlook, but I still need IE to be able to use my corporate intranet (some of my development work is for intranet applications, so I need to be able to test them). Unfortunately, my company runs IIS on the intranet servers, and only allows NT Challenge/Response for authentication. So, short of trying to get IE running under VMWare/Wine (Which I have not been able to successfully do yet), I'm stuck in Windows.

Does anyone know if there are any other web browsers that can do NT Authentication?? I'm guessing no, since it's a closed Microsoft protocol.

Re:Can't ditch my Win2k box just yet.

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

> The Kerberos-like authentication is apparently > much stronger, but there don't seem to be any > open implementations of it yet.

Yes there are. Andrew Tridgell has coded one up inside Samba 3.0.x (still in alpha). Available as the Samba HEAD CVS tree. It'll be the standard
auth mechanism for 3.0.

Regards,

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.

Re:connector ? i want an GOOD exchange replacement

[HeUnique]

Umm, did you check Bynari.net solution? it runs just fine and it can replace your exchange server very nicely, AND got Linux mail clients if u need it...