Windows PDC HowTo?

I am an experienced Windows 2K Server Admin (with some Linux experience), and for obvious reasons we decided to migrate our small (10 user) outfit to an XServe running Panther. We even bit and purchased Premium care.

The guys on the Mac sales team had me convinced that setting up the system as a PDC was just a matter of turing on some options in a couple configuration screens. As most of you probably know, this is not the case.

At the moment, I have the XServe as an Open Direcotry Master and PDC. However, when I attempt to join a Windows machine to the domain, I get a DNS error. The DNS is set correctly, and both forward and reverse lookups to the server work correctly.

I have already had to demote/promote the system to Standalone OD and back again in order to create the domain Admion account (it did not work the first time, for some reason) and I have also had to scrap the DHCP server and re-configure it to make that work.

If anyone knows a good HOWTO or walkthru out there to get this working, please let me know. We are at an advantage due to the size of our company- we are starting the server form scratch and do not have to migrate any onformation (other than mail) over to it.

At the moment, we are VERY unhappy with our Mac, and we have 25 more days to return the system- DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK TO WINDOWS!

Thank you in advance,
jed

PS- I will gladly create a HOWTO form my experience with all the help I get.