Dear listmembers, I use a samba server 2.8.1 with about 50 persons attached in a M$-Domain (the samba - server is not a domain controler). Each user has it's own account on the server (for example DJurzitza). Every other time someone suddenly (I did not find out the reason why this happens) cannot attach to the server any more if it's password on the server differs from the password in the surrounding M$ domain. Since people are forced to change their password every 6 weeks in the M$ domain I try to avoid this. I do not want to authenticitate people in the M$ domain, I want them to authenticate on the samba server. Does anybody have a clue what could be the cause? Should I provide the smb.conf file / excerpts from /var/log/messages? Many thanks for you help in advance, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ________________________________________________ HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Manager Hardware Systems ESI Industriegebiet Ittersbach Becker-G?ring Str. 16 D-76307 Karlsbad / Germany Phone: +49 (0)7248 71-1577 Fax: +49 (0)7248 71-1216 eMail: DJurzitza@harmanbecker.com Internet: http://www.becker.de ******************************************* Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. *******************************************