[Samba] Best way for exchange?

[Don Bivens]

Active Directory is not a "PDC".  You have to forest prep and domain 
prep against the Directory and then install Exchange.  It works easiest 
on the machine that hosts AD (assuming you only have one) but it can be 
installed on a seperate box from the DC.

Allen Bolderoff wrote:

>So, E2k requires w2k acting as PDC? Or can it be a member server?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Bivens [mailto:dbivens at carolinanetworking.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 9:18 AM
>To: Allen Bolderoff
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Best way for exchange?
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>E2K requires W2K
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>Allen Bolderoff wrote:
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>>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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