Hi all! you can do it, yes! Getting rid of the NT Server and authenticate your users with a Unix machine! have a look at http://www.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/nisgina This is a slightly modified NISGINA that includes a very well done config tool. I did set it up here and it works great. It takes less than one minute per client to set up, once a common profile is saved on a shared drive (well if the client is booted and you are logged in as Admin...) With NISGINA you can even syncronize the .../samba/private/smbpasswd file with the NIS passwd table. Great work! Have fun! Rick -- Riccardo Sibilia sibilia@ims.ee.ethz.ch Inst. fuer militaerische Sicherheitstechnik http://www.ims.ee.ethz.ch/ Auf der Mauer 2 Tel. +41 1 252 6260 8001 Zurich / Switzerland Fax. +41 1 252 1667