hi, it seems there is a bug in 3.0.11rc1 which was not present in 3.0.11pre2. in rc1 only the second net join command is successful ie: ------------------------------ # net rpc join PDC -U Administrator; net rpc join PDC -U Administrator Password: Create of workstation account failed User specified does not have administrator privileges Unable to join domain KONYVKLUB. Password: Joined domain KONYVKLUB. ------------------------------ which is strange since nothing happend between the two command! what's more this was good in 3.0.11pre2 (if i downgrade to 3.0.11pre2 the first command is successful). yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"