I'm having the toughest time getting this to work... I have a windows 2000 domain and i'm in the process of adding a Samba fileserver... All of the setup guides i have seen point me in the right direction, but fail to provide assistance for my single problem... basically i've figured out that if i have security = share. I can run the gentent passwd command and see the domain accounts in the list! thats great!!! but if i have security = ads, then the users disappear when i run the command. and i have to have a matching user account in linux to access the shares at all, and thats just plain silly!!! I do see one error in the log.winbindd but i am unable to get past it. [2003/10/13 14:52:28, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(832) winbindd version 3.0.0 started. Copyright The Samba Team 2000-2003 [2003/10/13 14:52:29, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:add_trusted_domain(149) Added domain DATANAT DATANAT.COM [2003/10/13 14:52:29, 1] libsmb/clikrb5.c:ads_krb5_mk_req(269) krb5_cc_get_principal failed (No credentials cache found) [2003/10/13 14:52:29, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:add_trusted_domains(206) scanning trusted domain list I did kinit, net ads join, and can test via wbinfo & smbclient... all is well!!! just no getent passwd or groups I also dont see the kerberos error when winbindd starts in share mode... Where can I look? HELP!!! I've given my smb.conf, krb5.conf, and ldap.conf... The nsswitch.conf is set and so are the PAM's SMB.CONF [global] workgroup = DATANAT realm = DATANAT.COM server string = Linux File Server security = ads encrypt passwords = yes password server = 140.100.10.150 domain logons = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No netbios name = DCLINUX guest account = nobody winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes wins server = 140.100.10.150 winbind separator = + winbind cache time = 15 template shell = /bin/bash template homedir = /home/%D/%U winbind uid = 10000-20000 winbind gid = 10000-20000 idmap uid = 500-65535 idmap gid = 100-65535 KRB5.CONF [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log [libdefaults] ticket_lifetime = 24000 default_realm = DATANAT.COM dns_lookup_realm = true dns_lookup_kdc = true forwardable = true proxiable = true default_etypes = des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 default_etypes_des = des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 [realms] DATANAT.COM = { kdc = dcpdc.datanat.com:88 admin_server = 140.100.10.150:749 default_domain = datanat.com } [domain_realm] .datanat.com = DATANAT.COM datanat.com = DATANAT.COM [kdc] profile = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf [appdefaults] pam = { debug = false ticket_lifetime = 36000 renew_lifetime = 36000 forwardable = true krb4_convert = false } LDAP.CONF host 140.100.10.150 base dc=datanat,dc=com nss_map_objectclass posixAccount User nss_map_attribute uid sAMAccountName nss_map_attribute uniqueMember Member nss_map_attribute homeDirectory msSFUHomeDirectory nss_map_objectclass posixGroup Group pam_login_attribute sAMAccountName pam_filter objectclass=User ssl no pam_password ad ldap_version 3 binddn cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=datanat,dc=com bindpw dc030103 port 389 Thanks for the support!!!