Hi, a number of people reported problems when trying to join the ADS. The error message mostly looked like "krb5_cc_credentials not found" or "ads_connect: No such file or directory". I got these errors on my SuSE 9.0 (Samba 3.0.2a, heimdal-devels installed, Samba configured with --prefix=/usr/local/samba3 --with-ldap --with-ads) system, too. Well, now I'm a little step further: I don't get these messages anymore ;-)) I found a posting with google, that recommended to deinstall Heimdal and install MIT Kerberos. Although I found another posting that said Samba should work with Heimdal, I removed it and installed the binaries from MIT (the source packages failed to compile): http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/#krb5-1.3.2-src The MIT Kerberos likes to be installed in /usr/local/[bin|lib|....] but I choosed /usr/[bin|lib|..] Before I removed the heimdal rpms, I made a copy of /etc/krb5.conf. Good idea, rpm removed the file. I didn't change the smb.conf ( usual parameters like in every docu) but copied the krb5.conf to /etc and /usr/local/etc (remember, MIT prefers /usr/local/etc). My "net ads join -U Administrator" finished without an error!! NOTE: rpm complains about a number of dependencies when you remove heimdal. It's up to you whether you want to do a 'rpm -e --nodeps' Hope, this helps one or the other of you. Stefan -- ***************************************** in-put GbR - Das Linux-Systemhaus Stefan-Michael G?nther Moltkestra?e 49 D-76133 Karlsruhe Tel./Fax : +49 (0)721 / 83044 - 98/93 http://www.in-put.de/ ***************************************** ____________________________________________________________________________ Nachrichten, Musik und Spiele schnell und einfach per Quickstart im WEB.DE Screensaver - Gratis downloaden: http://screensaver.web.de/?mc=021110