doing a brief search i am not clear whether or not samba(latest stable) can do LDAP authentication and keep encrypt passwords = yes . Last i looked samba could not do this with PAM, but since SAMBA has (last i checked) native LDAP support is this possible? i think it couldn't do it with PAM because PAM only returns a code, pass/fail? whereas LDAP returns a lot more information to the process(provided its doing LDAP nativly and not LDAP through PAM) i started looking into LDAP this week and really like it. thanks! nate