[Samba] Best way for exchange?

rruegner robowarp at gmx.de
Thu Nov 13 17:42:21 GMT 2003


Exchange 2000 needs active direc., so you have to have a working active
directory with a win 2k
server as Pdc, Samba cant act only as member of active directory.
Exchange 2000 will never accept a Samba Pdc
It should be possible with exchange 5.5 cause samba 3 can act like win nt 4
server
But exchange 5.5 will outdated very soon, take a look to comercial exchange
alternatives
like samsung or suse,
or free produkts like kolab ,opengroupware
that will do the job of exchange too.
The problem with using linux mailservers with funktions like exchange is the
client ( outlook )
there are comercial conectors which enables outlook to use linux mailserver
with the exchange funktions.

Best Regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bivens" <dbivens at carolinanetworking.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Best way for exchange?


> 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?
> >
> >
> >-----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?
> >
> >E2K requires W2K
> >
> >Allen Bolderoff wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have been asked to set up a customer with Exchange 2000.
> >>
> >>I have tried to convert them, so please don't suggest it.
> >>
> >>We have 3 boxes we can use to do this with.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Will this work?
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >>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)
> >>
> >>Is there any way to do it, or is anyone doing it with samba as the PDC
and
> >>BDC?
> >>
> >>
> >>TIA
> >>
> >>Allen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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