Debian Etch, Samba and Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers
Teztech is in the process of upgrading one of our customers from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Server 2007 requires a Windows 2003 or newer domain controller. This client happens to still have a Windows Server 2000 PDC, so we first have to upgrade the PDC. We decided to go ahead and dive in and replace the PDC with a server running Windows Server 2008.
After promoting the 2008 server to a domain controller, I noticed that our file server running Debian Etch could no longer resolve Windows domain usernames and groups. (more…)