Hi All, My smbldap-useradd.pl now accepts dots in the username. Thank you J?r?me Tournier. But now when I run 'net rpc vampire' I get the following errors. [2003/12/30 22:11:44, 1] utils/net_rpc_samsync.c:fetch_account_info(445) fetch_account: Running the command `/opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl -a -m "Golf"' gave 29 Can't call method "get_value" on an undefined value at /opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl line 154, <DATA> line 283. [2003/12/30 22:11:45, 1] utils/net_rpc_samsync.c:fetch_account_info(445) fetch_account: Running the command `/opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl -a -m "Guest"' gave 29 Can't call method "get_value" on an undefined value at /opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl line 154, <DATA> line 283. smbldap-useradd.pl:154: $userGroupSID = $group_entry->get_value('sambaSID'); smbldap-useradd.pl:283: my $winmagic = 2147483647; Any ideas? Any help much appreciated. Thank you. Darren