[Samba] Best way for exchange?

[rruegner]

Samba can act only as member of active directory is right, sorry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rruegner" <robowarp at gmx.de>
To: "Don Bivens" <dbivens at carolinanetworking.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Best way for exchange?


> 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 But exchange 5.5 will outdated very soon, take a look to comercial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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