Hi, I'm trying to build a samba server that shall substitue one of our NT4 servers but I'm having some problems with setting up the local user account: The NT4 server was member of a ressource domain (R1) and also had a local user account named "bcd" which is needed for a boot-cd. Normal users authenticated through the master domains M1 and M2 which has all the necessary trusts setup and working. For samba I'm using 3.0.7-Debian. I've setup winbindd and joined samba to the domain (security = domain). Authentication is working for domain users from M1 and M2 so this seems to be fine. Then I've added a linux user bcd and a samba user bcd (smbpasswd -a bcd) to allow authentication from the boot-cd. But this does not work, after a few seconds I always get the error that no logon server is available. To work around this, I tried to include /etc/samba/%Dauth.conf to let me create one auth.conf (containing security = user) for the bcd user), M1auth.conf and M2auth.conf (containing the settings needed for authenticating against the domain) but acording to the log samba always uses the auth.conf which results in the domain users unable to authenticate. Google didn't show anything useful. How can the non-domain user authenticate against the samba server while the domain users are still able to access the server? I've attached my config and a few lines from the log below. Thanks for taking your time, Daniel Frank If it helps here's my config: [global] workgroup = R1 ; The ressource domain. Users are in M1 and M2, all needed trusts are setup and working server string = CDS Server announce as = NT Workstation log file = /var/log/samba/%m max log size = 100 syslog = 0 security = DOMAIN invalid users = root load printers = no unix charset = iso8859-15 display charset = iso8859-15 idmap uid = 15000-30000 idmap gid = 15000-30000 use sendfile = Yes winbind separator = + winbind use default domain = Yes ; Also tried with "no" winbind enum users = no ; M1 and M2 have severall thousand users winbind enum groups = no winbind cache time = 15 winbind trusted domains only = yes ; Also tried with "no" log level = 5 ; I can provide more detailed logs if it's useful. include = /etc/samba/services.conf ; Only shares in it, so I'm not adding it to the mail. If it's useful, just tell me to post it. Here are a few lines of the log (I filtered a few lines to keep it smaller): [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(804) sesssetupX:name=[]\[BCD]@[pc-525533] [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 5] auth/auth_util.c:make_user_info_map(225) make_user_info_map: Mapping user []\[BCD] from workstation [pc-525533] [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 5] libsmb/trustdom_cache.c:trustdom_cache_fetch(184) no entry for trusted domain R1 found. [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 5] auth/auth_util.c:make_user_info(133) attempting to make a user_info for BCD (BCD) [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 5] auth/auth_util.c:make_user_info(143) making strings for BCD's user_info struct [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 5] auth/auth_util.c:make_user_info(185) making blobs for BCD's user_info struct [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 3] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(219) check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user []\[BCD]@[pc-525533] with the new password interface [2004/09/30 13:53:12, 3] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(222) check_ntlm_password: mapped user is: [R1]\[BCD]@[pc-525533] .... [2004/09/30 13:53:43, 5] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(271) check_ntlm_password: winbind authentication for user [BCD] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS [2004/09/30 13:53:43, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312) check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [BCD] -> [BCD] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS