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Seems like with network filesharing you'd be happy with Google Apps. So what's keeping you from just buying filesharing from another vendor?

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Not much, I've implemented a temporary solution for that, but would like something centrally managed which utilizes the same accounts etc. And the current setup doesnt give us any domain controller(for machines). DOH! Sounds like I just have to give up and get that boring ms-setup. :)

With ~50 users, you don't need central management in my opinion. Yes, from sysadmin perspective it would be nice and professional, but on the other hand, it costs, and adds administration. Is it worth it? I'm not sure.

I really hope, that there were a good alternative for MS setup. Currently I feel that only a network file sharing, centralized directory for users (AD), and printer sharing are about the only things a little bit problematic without using MS stack. It's shame that so few file sharing / collaboration services integrate with Google authentication.

I agree, perhaps not worth the hassle. Although I stated it as a requirement because I feel its sane to expect that would "just work", but apparently not.

I was thinking about some sort of auth-proxy for authenticating against google apps, and in case google apps doesnt respond it would use whatever happened last time, as a cache. And that proxy could be used for PAM, network login, filesharing etc. But its not in the scope for this project to develop that.

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