Hello I use samba-3.0.7 & openldap 2.2.13. When I try to join a machine-account to the domain, I always get the message "the specified user does not exist". What happens? when I try to join, it seems like the whole samba database is being searched. ldap.log (below) Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: => access_allowed: search access to "uid=u00xxxx,ou=staff,o=kuleuven,c=be" "sambaSID" requested Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: <= root access granted Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: => access_allowed: search access to "uid=u00xxxx,ou=staff,o=kuleuven,c=be" "sambaSID" requested Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: <= root access granted Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: => access_allowed: search access to "uid=u00xxxx,ou=staff,o=kuleuven,c=be" "sambaSID" requested Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: <= root access granted Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 slapd[3079]: => access_allowed: search access to "uid=u00xxxx,ou=staff,o=kuleuven,c=be" "sambaSID" requested in var/log/messages: I receive a time-out message. Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 smbd[3098]: [2004/10/15 17:25:30, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1101) Oct 15 17:25:30 linsam-15 smbd[3098]: smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (unknown) (Timed out) any ideas as what may cause this? thanks werner maes