[Samba] Re: Will/Can Exchange Server run with a samba pdc?

Steve Lee maillist at blitzen.net
Tue May 21 15:36:02 GMT 2002


we also here at my work have exchange running off our pdc win nt4

however, how would one go about making exchange work with samba ?
that is something i would like to do.


Thanks.



On Tue, 21 May 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:

> One suggestion would be to create a domain called mail on a nt4 pdc and have exhcange running of that. Then have a samba domain for the rest of your machines. That is sort of what we've done here, and it works fine.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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> Kristyan Osborne IT Technician
> Longhill High School
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Moore [mailto:stephen at bundaberg.qld.gov.au]
> Sent: 21 May 2002 07:16
> To: samba
> Subject: [Samba] Re: Will/Can Exchange Server run with a samba pdc?
> 
> 
> Well,
> 
> Lacking any feedback, we had to assume we were on a loser here and we 
> bought the old winnt4 pdc back online.
> 
> We now have two domains, the original winnt4 domain and the new samba 
> domain, since we had to rename one domain we renaimed the samba one. We 
> now have the bulk of our clients hanging off the new domain and our 
> exchange server hanging off the old domain.
> 
> I will proberbly suck it and see if I can get a exchange server working 
> on the new domain then try to migrate mailboxes, but what the hell I may 
> just let that system rot.
> 
> We had a lot of fun doing the conversion, didn't get the logon 
> home/drive/path just right and crashed our winnt clients badly (on 
> logon). We didn't try to migrate our passwords, just re-entered them 
> (then changed the domain twice). So Our basic windows clients went 
> fairly well. We lost our winnt4 desktops profiles in the domain 
> conversion, but we only had a few of those (five).
> 
> We are going to Windows XP home on the basic desktop. These clients were 
> a non-event and have so far just worked. Haven't bought and winxp pro 
> clients, I just can't see why (we don't need dual processor on the 
> desktop and really don't need the domain structure either)
> 
> Well, I like free software, so I think the excercise was worth it. The 
> users don't care. And the management really don't care either, saving a 
> few bucks is ok but then theres the time and support issues.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Stephen Moore wrote:
> 
> > Having read the list, it seems that exchange _should_ work, but may 
> > need to be reinstalled
> >
> > Could some *please* confirm that exchange 5.5 does work with samba 2.2.4.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Stephen Moore wrote:
> >
> >> Its not for us.
> >>
> >> We migrated from our nt4 pdc to samba pdc last night with good 
> >> outcomes as far as our clients but our exchange server no longer works.
> >>
> >> It failed initially as we did not have the" log on as a service user" 
> >> (not strictly true, we had administrator but it didn't work for some 
> >> reason)
> >>
> >> After we got a working  service user then got "service specific error 
> >> 4021"
> >>
> >> This in theory is corrected by q170810 "run isinteg -patch"
> >>
> >> Running this gives us "ds_e_insufficient_access_rights"
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 





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