I've got a small group of users, and I fear I'm going to end up with 2-3 passwords per user, and would like to avoid this. Scenario: Network of W98 PCs 1 Linux Samba server 1 SCO Server, running an app which needs SCO VisionFS, and plaintext passwords At the insistence of the SCO app vendor, I have enabled plaintext. Can anyone point me to a solution where: Users can have 1 password, and Users can change this password from the 98 box. It appears that to sync passwords you need encryption. If this is NOT the case, I can set up an /etc/smbpasswd file, and possible coerce the SCO people into running NIS for me. Any ideas? I may just tell the people that they have N passwords, but I'd like to be more elegant. Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:ed@schernau.com Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA