Hello Samba-Gurus, I don't know if it's possible what I want, but I want to hear some opinions: The situation is as follows: I have a Samba-server running (2.2.2) which authenticate all Win98-clients and users. All users are stored in NDS (Novell Directory Service) and I access this via edir and pam_modules; this works _nearly_ fine, but this is an other story. Now I want to create a Linux-Image so that students can choose if they use Windows or Linux. But I don't know how to authenticate the students under Linux. I've tried pam_smb, but no success, cause all users have to be in passwd (we have about 2300 users). As I think winbind won't work too, because it needs a PDC, but I can't make a PDC, cause I have to use unencrypted passwords due to pam. BTW the NDS-Installation (or better edir for Linux) was made by an Novell-specialist. I think ldap could do the trick, but somehow the server can not be found and I have no expierience with ldap. So any hint is welcome Peter