Samba as PDC w/ Exchange

[James Willard]

Tomas,

    Exchange Administrator gives you the option to either select an existing
account to give the mailbox permissions to or create a new one. If I'm
understanding you correctly, you're having problems when you are trying to
choose to create an account. This is most likely because Exchange uses
strange calls to add users. You should probably create users on the machine
acting as PDC then select them through Exchange Administrator.

   As a side note, you might also want to use Samba 2.1-prealpha if you're
using the PDC functionality. You'll have fewer problems, since NT Domain
code really isn't supported in 2.0.

James Willard, CCNA
james at whispering.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Tomas Gasper <TGasper at highlandil.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:46 AM
Subject: Samba as PDC w/ Exchange


> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run Samba 2.0 on Linux kernel 2.0.36 as a PDC with
Microsoft
> Exchange running on a Windoze NT server in the domain.  All is well with
> respect to the machine being in the domain and logging in as a domain
user.
> The problem I have is that whenever I try to map a  "Primary Windows NT"
> account to an Exchange mailbox, the Exchange Admin program GPFs in a bad
way
> immediately after the "Add user" window pops up and before any domain
users
> are shown in the window.  (I can, however, see domain users in NT's User
> Admin for Domains without problem)
>
> In some other utilities that use the seemingly general purpose "Add user
or
> group" window, there are always "predefined" users that NT seems to expect
> to find in the domain, but can't such as "The Operating System", "The
Owner
> of the file", etc-These users are shown as "Account Unknown" with a hex
> number shown such as "0000002", "0000004", etc. along with the description
> of the non-existent user.
>
> Basically, what I'm wondering is whether I should, somehow, have
predefined
> users in my domain (perhaps through /etc/smbpasswd) that NT is expecting -
> my guess is that Exchange can't gracefully handle the absence of some of
> these assumed accounts so it GPFs.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Is anyone successfully running Samba as a PDC with Exchange?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Tomas Gasper
> tgasper at highlandil.com <mailto:tgasper at highlandil.com>
>
>
>