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This spec describes Ubuntu's Small Business Server storage, a solution aimed at making it easy for non-technical businesses set up an Ubuntu based server for a simple but scalable storage solution. This spec describes Ubuntu's Small Business Server directory services, a solution aimed at making it easy for non-technical businesses set up an Ubuntu based server for a simple but scalable administration of users and user information.
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 * Easy configuring and distributing document store and other mountable filesystem resorces for local and remote users
 * Easy configuring and distributing generic diskresources for virtual machines
 * Scalability, adding new resources with no limits and as little computer outage as possible
 * Security; encrypted, distributed, redundancy and backup-strategy 		 * Easy configuring user credetials at a sigle point
 * Easy configuring and distributing user configuration for e-mail, IM, filebrowser/mount-points etc
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 * Jane is responsible primary for accounting, and secondary, IT at a small business and needs storage for Open ERP and indirect PostgreSQL.
 * John wants to be able to work at his home-desktop and on the train on his laptop (offline) and share the same documents that he has at his office workstation.
 * Steven finds out that he has done some major deletes by accident some days ago in one of the documents hes working with. He wants to be able to recover to an earlier version of his document using the file manager (Nautilus).
 * Rose wants to share documents with a) her colleagues in management b) all of her colleagues at office. This without compromise the integrity of information between these groups.
 * Matt discover that one storage server have severe hardvare malfunctions. The service agreement states that he has to send the computer to the service workshop. When he do so hes not compromising the business or industrial secrets, nor he creates computer outage.
 * Cathrine wants to add storage resources to the company network, she founds a storage server that can handle more disks so she buys some more large disks and adds them.
 * Tony is starting a branch office and connects his small network to cooperate with company network. 		 * Jane logs in to a computer she newer used before in the corpnetwork, she can instantly use evolution for her mail, contacts, notes and calendar. In nautilus she can find both her documents and shared documents. The IM- and telephony system are updated where to find Jane.
 * Steve is new in the company, Helen who is responsible HR updates the directory and gives Steve his user-name, initial password, e-mailaddress, IM-id and telephone-number. Steve can now use the corporates resources.
 * Rose is a temp and when she is not working the security officer wants that Rose does not have access to corporate resources. This is done at the directory.
 * John is not working any-more at the corp, when his deleted at the directory he does not have access to shared resousrces any-more.
 * Cathrine works some-times off-line...
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Storage and file servers. Announcing services, adding users and workstations. Administrating rights and adding resources. Implementing backup, redundancy and distribution. Adding and removing users. Distribute new and updated user oriented configuration data. Authorization on and off-line, web resources and fat clients.
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* OpenAFS, GlusterFS....?
* iSCSI ?
* When to share and when to replicate		 * OpenLDAP, Gosa, Phamm, LAT
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 * Backintime, dirvish ???
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http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS_Grid

http://ceph.newdream.net/about/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems

http://www.xtreemfs.org/

http://ceph.newdream.net/

http://hadoop.apache.org/

http://www.drbd.org/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableiSCSITarget

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/IscsiEcryptfs
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 * UbuntuEasyFilePrintServer
 * UbuntuServerTasks
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/UbuntuInstantServer]]
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/SmallBusinessServer]]
 * [[Obuntu]]
 * edubuntu user management stuff

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Summary

This spec describes Ubuntu's Small Business Server directory services, a solution aimed at making it easy for non-technical businesses set up an Ubuntu based server for a simple but scalable administration of users and user information.

Packages and tools to make configuring of a Small Business Server for Ubuntu as easy as possible.

Some goals:

  • Easy configuring user credetials at a sigle point
  • Easy configuring and distributing user configuration for e-mail, IM, filebrowser/mount-points etc

Rationale

The free software universe in general, and Ubuntu in particular, already provides most of the tools and infrastructure components needed to fulfill the needs of small businesses. What we need is good integration between these components and easy configuration.

Use Cases

  • Jane logs in to a computer she newer used before in the corpnetwork, she can instantly use evolution for her mail, contacts, notes and calendar. In nautilus she can find both her documents and shared documents. The IM- and telephony system are updated where to find Jane.
  • Steve is new in the company, Helen who is responsible HR updates the directory and gives Steve his user-name, initial password, e-mailaddress, IM-id and telephone-number. Steve can now use the corporates resources.
  • Rose is a temp and when she is not working the security officer wants that Rose does not have access to corporate resources. This is done at the directory.
  • John is not working any-more at the corp, when his deleted at the directory he does not have access to shared resousrces any-more.
  • Cathrine works some-times off-line...

Scope

Adding and removing users. Distribute new and updated user oriented configuration data. Authorization on and off-line, web resources and fat clients.

Design

* Avahi? * OpenLDAP, Gosa, Phamm, LAT

Backups of home-directories

Implementation

Everything in this spec will likely be done as deb-packages that will fit in well with other Ubuntu distributed software.

BoF agenda and discussion

Comments

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