>Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to authenticate >against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to complete this >particular setup however I have run into some difficulties such as not being able >to lookup domain users via getent passwd. W2k8r2 introduced some changes over w2k3 that make the need for a newer Samba a must iirc when I did this. Otherwise you can lower the security requirements on the w2k8r2 server. FWIW, I don't like Samba and would suggest using ldap:)