win2k AD/PDC, Linux 2.4.18 (rh 7.3), samba 2.2.7a I configure nsswitch and winbind to do authentication against either the local passwd file OR the win2k box. Works fine. My need is to mount the users share under their login directory. Pam_mount would seem to be the answer. It was failing so I turned on debugging, and only now and then does pam_mount seem to get the password from winbind. My suspicion is around the caching of answers that winbind does. It looks like that regardless of what you have the password cache setting at, if it has got a correct answer for this user once, and the DB on the win2k server hasn't changed, we don't really ask (which is fine), but it seems we don't pass the password on to other modules that might want a look at it. I've included my pam config for login below. Pam_mount seems to work fine for local users. Am I in the weeds? Feature? bug? thanks jim feldman #%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 required /lib/security/pam_mount.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/pam_mount.so use_first_pass