I have to implement a domain into a business with ~200 user accounts. Being a unix guy, samba seemed the first choice.
However, after a few discussions related to ease of management (which will be delegated to support staff) and ease of implementation, Windows 2003 Server became another option.
I would like your opinions on PDC Samba+ldap (to which I wish to authenticate postfix too) versus a Windows 2003 Server Domain Controller.
Best Answer
It comes down to whether you want to spend time implementing Samba or spend money implementing Windows Server. We use Samba, but there's a few niggles, but it's significantly cheaper than Windows Server. In particular, Samba doesn't seem to be noticing changes to group memberships until you restart it. It does give us a bit more flexibility than Windows would allow. We use LDAP for our authentication and it seems to work reasonably well.