I would love to have this...does it work with Active Directory and multiple OU's?

I agree with Carnuke.. you can download the version I run Here. I have it running on my site here. I beleive it's Wordpress version 1.2 but it has plenty of functionality and maybe there is an updated version somwhere?

Hey Monty,

If your hard drive has mechanical or electronic failue your probably out of luck but I have had good luck with tools from Ontrack. Sometimes you have damaged partitions that prevent the OS from accessing the hard drive. It may be a long shot but in my experience their have been times when putting in a boot floppy from Ontrack and accessing the hard drive has paid off handsomely for me.

More time to play with Linux, less time recovering your lost MP3's...I feel your pain.

**Off to back up my Resume and Mp3's, everything else I can do without***

Perfectly said...You write very clear documentation.

I use XOOPS in a company intranet setting. I agree with Brash on the user management side but there is the possibility to integrate with Active Directory wich I am assuming you have since your are an MSSQL shop (It would also work with any other LDAP directory that you may be using). You may find this post from Ackbarr to be very helpful in making that happen LDAP Auth.

I wrap a number of other apps into my intranet using Tiny Content and it works just fine. XOOPS is simple and clean and in the end it was much easier for me to understand than Mambo so I went with it. My users like it alot and I don't have any complaints.

The other point that needs making is that there are a number of people like Brash and Ackbarr that seem to understand the corporate/Microsoft environment very well and support is very easy to be had. While I have not had much interaction with them one on one I do refer to there posts and obtained all the info I needed with my searches on xoops.org. I can't say enough about the XOOPS community and for what it's worth, you should feel confident in your ability to get answers to any problems you may encounter...especially since you seem to have a good background based on reading your posts.

Seth_SD

That looks correct. 644 should be fine.

multiMenu is a must have. Check out This Site. Both the left side and right side menu's are done with multiMenu including the headings (Services & About Us). It's so simple and flexible you'll maybe wonder how you did without it. When I build a site I just use multiMenu for all of my menus.

Solo71 did an awesome job with this one!


Seth

I'll take the opportunity and say maybe it's the green stuff that's keeping you from seeing it?

I can see it just fine....

As a newbie I feel compelled to chime in. I rolled out XOOPS to our company with no background in programming but some experience with HTML and simple web stuff. I have a very extensive networking background which gives me a decent technical foundation and understanding of how to obtain the information I need to get e technical project underway and completed. I used the XOOPS site and other resources on the internet entirely as my guide for the implementation. I think I posted 2 times and that was in regards to LDAP.

I think there are many valid points in this thread. The XOOPS site does offer alot of info but it is not the easiest site in the world and is somewhat cluttered. When trying to implement LDAP I spent hours going through the forums, searching, reading and trying everything I could think of. I posted to the forums and Ackbarr kindly pointed me to a post that for the life of me I could never find while doing my research.

From a technical support perspective I think that trying to eliminate newbie posts by referring them to newbie sites or pages is somewhat feudal. Most people have or think they have somewhat of a unique problem. It's only natural to assume that you have done the basics and will require some additional help if you cannot fix it yourself. I actually found it very useful to have many newbie posts to read through as each post is unique and allowed me to glean relevant or new information and techniques from many of them.

Unfortunately, as many have said in these posts, there does not seem to be a simple solution. Simplicity, good search capabilities and continued support from experienced users seems to make the most sense. I appreciate all of the time that many of the most experienced users put into this. For every previously answered newbie post, I think there must be a hundred newbies that used the XOOPS functionality to its fullest and obtained the info they needed to get the job done! For those that didn't, we'll just need to accomodate them as we do in corporate IT environments all the time.

Regards,
Seth

I've had great luck at Hurricane Electrichttp://www.he.net . Nothing fancy, no Cpanel, no Fantastico just great performance and excellent customer service. They always answer the phone quickly and respond to e-mail right away. Also found the shell account to be very useful and lacking in many other providers packages. While it's not essential to running XOOPS it sure is nice to have.