Any Problems Using Samba as a Windows Domain Controller?

Question

We're looking to run a Windows domain using Samba+OpenLDAP on Ubuntu as a domain controller. The documentation out there is a bit spotty and out of date, especially when it comes to installation, which features are supported, and how well.

Once this is set up, we hope to be able to use integrated authentication of our IIS sites (including Sharepoint) against the domain controller.

Anyone out there who has done this already? Anything specific we should watch out for? Or is it not worth the hassle of trying to set up?

Answer 1

I'm not sure of the details of this configuration, but I would caution you around support for SharePoint if you need to provide any SLA or support business users. I don't think this would be something MS would like if you needed to get SharePoint support.