[Samba] The Big Plunge

[Sorisio,Chris]

This is promising news, but after reading through various large chunks of
documentation last night, I have a few more worries.

1.  We have an MS Exchange 5.5 server in place that we will not be able to
phase out this cycle.  Hopefully by 2006...
2.  We have a handful of remote branch offices.  These offices currently
reside in their own NT domains with WAN connections back to the main office.
All their e-mail and Internet access is handled through the main office via
the WAN.

Questions:

1.  Does MS Exchange 5.5 play nice with a Samba PDC?  We use (cough) Outlook
on the desktop, which is something else we will not be able to phase out
this cycle, and the MAPI interface.  Exchange needs to auth users against
the PDC.

2.  If I collapse all the users into a single NT domain and turn the remote
branch office PDCs into Samba BDCs with a Samba PDC at the main office (some
documentation has been written on how to do this, anyone actually doing it?)
would that work?

3.  Is Samba 3.0 stable enough to consider using in production?  Six months
from now, is it going to be "officially" production-ready?  (I know, I know
- "when it's ready." :) )

Thanks to everyone who has given feedback, I greatly appreciate it.

Chris