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downtownallday / cloudinabox

An installation of Nextcloud that borrows some of the "Mail-in-a-Box" code and standards
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Possibility to run together with MiaB-LDAP on the very same Ubuntu system instance? #4

Closed dumblob closed 4 years ago

dumblob commented 4 years ago

I've finally come to try to install cloudinabox, but I'd like to have it together with MiaB-LDAP on one machine.

When reading readme of MiaB-LDAP I'm not sure whether the services won't "bite" each other as I got scared by:

During setup you will be prompted for the hostname and web prefix of your remote Nextcloud box.

The setup mod will configure Roundcube and Z-Push (ActiveSync) to use the remote Nextcloud for contacts and calendar instead of the local Nextcloud, which will be disabled (browsing to /cloud will fail). Old contacts will still be available in Roundcube, but read-only. Users can drag them into the remote Nextcloud.

In addition to that I'm afraid there might be some inconsistency with DNS handling (mailinabox-ldap might want something else than cloudinabox and vice versa), then with backups, system users & groups, etc.

Any thoughts before I'll dive into the scripts to find out myself?

downtownallday commented 4 years ago

miab-ldap and cloudinabox must be on different servers

dumblob commented 4 years ago

Hm, and would it conflict with the scripts etc. if both servers shared the same domain name? In other words, does MiaB-LDAP modify only MX records and if not, are the changes compatible ("mergeable") with the changes cloudinabox does?

dumblob commented 4 years ago

Any insight regarding the domain "sharing" would be much appreciated. Any thoughts?

downtownallday commented 4 years ago

I'm not clear on exactly what you're asking. MiaB-LDAP has all the same DNS requirements as MiaB, whereas CiaB requires a single A record (it does not run its own nameserver).

dumblob commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't sure CiaB doesn't mangle DNS records. If there is no nameserver on CiaB, then I suspect CiaB can't do any harm to DNS records set by MiaB-LDAP. Closing this as resolved then.

Thanks for your support!