Hi, I read the howto but didn't find much information about how Samba 3 and Kerberos works together. It seems that there needs to be an AD server in order to take advantage of Kerberos. What I like to know is if it is possible to do something like the following(all from a linux client) without an AD server : kinit <principal> smbmount <some samba server share> regards, gary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com