[Samba] Best way for exchange?

[Allen Bolderoff]

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.


Thanks for your help Don, just to clarify,

E2k requires AD.

Therefore the only way to get 2 x authentication servers instead of 1, I
will need to run 2x w2k servers with AD installed, working, and replicating.
this way if the PDC equivalent machine goes down, the other machine will
still handle authentication. 

And the samba box will have to be just a ADC member, which does not act as
an authentication server itself.

Either that or convince them to go to a *nix based messaging/groupware
framework.


Thanks Again

Allen