[TriLUG] IM (Jabber and others... doing windows)

[Dave Sorenson]

I started with ejabberd and liked it but ended up with wildfire as my 
choice. http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ Wildfire seemed to me to 
have a better web management console.
YMMV
Dave

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I'm looking at jabber servers right now as well.  Its seems that:
>
> ejabberd is most xmpp compliant
> jabber 1.x is most stable with most pluggins
> jabber 2.x is promising - complete rewrite of jabber 1.x
>
> I didn't really look at the others.  I was going to start withe
> ejabberd first.
>
> Matt P.
>
>
> n Wed, September 6, 2006 8:42 am, Chris Knowles wrote:
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>> Well, I hope everyone had a good Labor day weekend.  As those of you
>> on
>> IRC noticed, I didn't.  One of several things to go wrong that day was
>> that lightening struck and killed our PBX/Voicemail system.  our
>> provider was able to get the PBX back online that night, but the
>> voicemail bit was down all yesterday, throwing our people into havoc.
>> One of the things I've been tasked to look at now is internal IM as an
>> option, rather than calling/e-mailing everything.
>>
>> The original idea as put to me, well, it caused convulsions.
>> (Originally, let's get everyone to get an MSN passport, and use
>> messenger.)
>>
>> So I immediately thought of Jabber.  I played with jabber on the
>> trilug
>> servers back when it first came up... but I wanted to know if it was
>> possible to get a (any) jabber server to authenticate users against a
>> windows 2003 domain?  (I found reference to a module smbauth, which
>> appears defunct.  and to openldap auth, which I can't find concrete
>> examples of working with windows.)
>>
>> Any help is, as always greatly appreciated.
>>
>> CJK
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