The AD-DC works pretty well these days, and has been adopted as a standard solution by a major European government (what helps is a local vendor committing to s

The AD-DC works pretty well these days, and has been adopted as a standard solution by a major European government (what helps is a local vendor committing to support the solution). There are also some large cloud-based companies using it (and I mean other than the Amazon "Simple AD" solution that they never really promoted much - my suspicion was they did that to get a better price from Microsoft :-). Hang out on the samba-technical@lists.samba.org list and you'll find around 70-80% of the questions are from Samba-AD-DC users - the fileserver is considered a somewhat solved problem these days. Look at the email domains to get an idea of who is using it and for what.