OK. Forget what I just sent. Somehow, I managed to add a character to my domain while I was looking at the smb.conf file in emacs. Once I changed that, getent now works for me. My problem was symlink. Somehow I misread the instructions and created /lib/libnss_winbind.2 instead of /lib/libnss_winbind.so.2. So now onto my new problem... this is most definitely PAM related. When I try to log into a console session using one of the domain accounts, it looks like it does get authorized, but 'login' doesn't allow me in. Here is my 'login' file from /etc/pam.d: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so session optional /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so And my system-auth: #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so auth required /lib/security/pam_env.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 typepassword sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shado w password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022 session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so I've modified both files based on info that I've found on the net in various locations. I think something must be wrong because I now get prompted for passwords twice when I try to log on to an X session or su to root either in X or at the console. Someone on one of the sites I was looking at made a suggestion to add 'pam_unix' to a few spots to fix this. I didn't have the problem UNTIL I added the additional lines. And I'm not 100% sure if the pam_unix lib is really the culprit for the double password. Thanks, George