I would appreciate any help. I have been trying to get samba working with LDAP and have been following the Samba LDAP pdc how to by Idealx. In each attempt i can't add users. Ideally I was trying to get one samba server at each remote office to host the printing and files and auth the local users with an LDAP back-end. Then I really got stupid and thought I should make my LDAP server a pdc and each of the remotes a bdc with file and print. Here's were I'm stuck at with the latest issue. I do not have a slave LDAP server "YET". [root@chpas-ntwrksvc root]# smbldap-useradd.pl -m testuser1 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_conf.pm line 223. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_conf.pm line 223. Use of uninitialized value in string at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_tools.pm line 176. Use of uninitialized value in string at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_tools.pm line 176. erreur LDAP: Can't contact slave ldap server (IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname '') at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_tools.pm line 176. Thanks Douglas Sterner