Iam trying to setup winbindd on a linux box, so anyone who logs in can use their NT passwd and an account is then created on hte Linux box. So far Ive installed Samba-2.2.2 from RedHat Rawhide. Ive copied all the correct links across and edited my smb.conf file to include the following: ------------------------------- [global] # Windind configuration winbind separator = + winbind cache time = 10 template shell = /bin/false template homedir = /home/%D/%U winbind uid = 10000-20000 winbind gid = 10000-20000 # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = MMEBS # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = domain # Use password server option only with security = server # The argument list may include: # password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name] # or to auto-locate the domain controller/s # password server = * password server = THOR # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes ; smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd ------------------------ In /etc/nsswitch.conf put the following: passwd: files winbind nisplus shadow: files winbind nisplus group: files winbind nisplus Also adding the following to '/etc/pam.d/system-auth' auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so use_first_pass after the line which reads auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok then I ran: smbpasswd -j MMEBS -r THOR -U admin password: password That got accepted into the domain: joined domain MMEBS This I checked again our PDC and the linuxbox (named scaramanga) is listed as part of the MMEBS domain. I then started winbindd and checked the output of 'wbinfo -t' which ouputed: secret is o.k so I then checked the output of 'getent passwd' and 'getent group' which reports all the users and groups from the NT PDC in the MMEBS domain correctly. So I then started samba and the samba server is showing up in the MMEBS domain correctly, but Iam unable to log in. so I then ran : wbinfo -a admin+password plaintext password authentication failed Could not authenticate user admin+password with plaintext password challenge/response password authentication failed Could not authenticate user admin+password with challenge/response and got the resonse listed above. Ive enabled encrypted passwds in the smb.conf file, so thats o.k. Also if I run wbinfo -m It just takes me back to the prompt. Could anyone possable point out where Iam going wrong please. Thanks in advance Mark ----- ---------- Mark Cooke Internet Operations Technician MM Group Ltd Tel: 8141 (Internal) Tel: (0117) 9168141 (External) Email: mark@mmebs.co.uk http://www.mmgroup.co.uk