Sorry for the delay on this, I wasn't able to connect up until today. Here's the top part of my smb.conf file. Again, you need to have winbind running to start samba to join a domain. But, in order to start winbind, you need the idmap paramaters defined. #======================= Global Settings ======================= [global] netbios name = servername username map = /etc/samba/user.map workgroup = DOMAIN server string = %h server (Samba %v) log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 security = domain password server = DOMAINCONTROLLER1 DOMAINCONTROLLER2 encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no read only = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = no dos filetime resolution = yes syslog = 0 wins server = xx.xx.xx.xx dns proxy = no idmap gid = 10000-11000 idmap uid = 45000-49000 Let me know if you have any questions. this worked for me on a RHEL 3.0 server. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list