[Samba] Best way for exchange?

Don Bivens dbivens at carolinanetworking.com
Thu Nov 13 04:46:34 GMT 2003


What I did say was that a DC is not a PDC.  PDC/BDC is an NT4 thing.
ADS Servers and DC's are the same thing.  You can have many DC's which 
means they run ADS.

mike at jurney.org wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Don Bivens wrote:
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>>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.
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>I'm a unix geek and have been for my entire career.  I'm fighting this
>ADS/PDC confusion right now, so if you can back up the assertion that an
>Active Directory Server can exist without being a Windows2000 Domain
>Controller (possibly running mixed-mode) with a pointer to some
>documentation saying as much I would be _ever_ so grateful.
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