[Samba] Best way for exchange?

[Don Bivens]

E2K requires W2K

Allen Bolderoff wrote:

>I have been asked to set up a customer with Exchange 2000.
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>I have tried to convert them, so please don't suggest it.
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>We have 3 boxes we can use to do this with.
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>We want to use Samba 3 as the PDC (ldap backend) and Samba 3 as BDC (ldap
>backend), with the exchange box as a domain member.
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>Will this work? 
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>If not, what is the best way to ensure that :
>a.	We have PDC and BDC for authentication purposes.
>b.	Exchange server works as it should, authentication being from said
>PDC or BDC.
>c.	File serving at minimum should be from Samba
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>Do I understand right that ES2k needs AD? If so, does this mean I have to
>run 2 x W2k servers in order to achieve this? (1 w2k PDC and 1 w2k BDC)
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>Is there any way to do it, or is anyone doing it with samba as the PDC and
>BDC?
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>TIA
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>Allen
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