I hope someone give me a clue to what is happening here. This is a new installation. I can add users to samba with no problems but I can't delete them from the ldap db using smbpasswd -x <username> nor via pdbedit -x -u <username> The ldap entry looks like this - # dn: uid=tester,ou=People,dc=mycompany,dc=com uid: tester sambaSID: S-1-5-21-118495222-1838158642-270368766-2026 sambaPrimaryGroupSID: S-1-5-21-118495222-1838158642-270368766-2023 sambaPwdCanChange: 1084486966 sambaPwdMustChange: 2147483647 sambaLMPassword: 27B5F7A8A911453AFA8297B31DAE3F0B sambaNTPassword: D005EA53CDE1161A736D8CA6D63529CB sambaPwdLastSet: 1084486966 sambaAcctFlags: [U ] objectClass: sambaSamAccount objectClass: account ============================================= When I try to delete that entry I get the following error messages - # smbpasswd -x tester ldapsam_delete_sam_account: Deleting user tester from LDAP. smbldap_search: base => [dc=mycompany,dc=com], filter => [(&(uid=tester)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))], scope => [2] ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute uid ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaSID ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaPrimaryGroupSID ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaPwdCanChange ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaPwdMustChange ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaLMPassword ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaNTPassword ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaPwdLastSet ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute sambaAcctFlags ldapsam_delete_entry: deleting attribute objectClass smbldap_modify: dn => [uid=tester,ou=People,dc=mycompany,dc=com] ldapsam_delete_entry: Could not delete attributes for uid=tester,ou=People,dc=mycompany,dc=com, error: Object class violation (object class 'account' requires attribute 'uid') Failed to delete entry for user tester. Failed to modify password entry for user tester # I'm not sure why this is happening. Any ideas or pointers? Thanks jay