The environment is very simple: single domain in single forest and we do not use Exchange and other stuff. Only AD and file shares.
The Windows 2008 Domain Controller is configured to be the only Adc for the domain test.local: this server is also the DNS server for this domain.
We’re going to migrate to Windows 2012 Server, and power off the Windows 2008 ADC.
Some months ago I’ve installed a guest CentOS 6.3 in Hyper-V vers. 6.0.6002 in Windows 2008 Standard Ed, without any Linux Integration Components (i’m lazy……).
Using yum I’ve installed a LAMP, and created a php-mysql website.
It seemed to work correctly… but after some days the websites stopped to work: I got the following errors in /var/log.
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' rejecting i/o to offline device
A very important group !
Okay, yes, I admit it: I didn’t know in “depth” the difference between Everyone and Authenticated Users built-in on M$ Windows groups. Here is the result of my research about this argument.
Authenticated Users encompasses all users who have logged in with a username and password.
Everyone encompasses all users who have logged in with a password as well as built-in, non-password accounts such as Guest and SERVICE, LOCAL_SERVICE, NETWORK_SERVICE.
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Yes, I know…… write about Exchange 2003 now is very vintage….. but this is a problem I had to solve in these last days: configure Exchange 2003 & Mozilla Thunderbird in order to convince them to talk to each other. It isn’t very difficult: in the next all the images/notes.
To start you have to verify the SMTP Virtual Server in Exchange configuration.