It certainly isn't more problematic. You should see the volume of complaints we used to get :-). A lot of the issues are usually around authentication and user

It certainly isn't more problematic. You should see the volume of complaints we used to get :-). A lot of the issues are usually around authentication and user mapping. Kerberos is complex, and Unix people don't understand Active Directory. That's usually the core of it. Once you get a connection things mostly just work (except for Windows ACLs, for which I blame the Linux kernel developers who refuse to add Andreas Grunbachers RichACL patch set for ideological reasons). Sadly enough, if you want ACLs to "just work" on Linux you have to use a license-incompatible ZFS backend for which Samba has native ACL support. Or just use ZFS-on-FreeBSD where the license isn't a problem. It's one Linux filesystem developer in particular who is blocking the RichACL patch, who is known to be,... shall we say... "difficult" ?