Hi all, I have been trying to get my RHEL 4.0 machine to act as a Windows NT domain controller so that I can get rid of some old NT 4.0 servers. I have the shares and permissions working without issue. The only problem is that I cannot get a Windows 2000 workstation to register to the Samba domain controller. I have gone through everything that I can think of, and have gone through more than one tutorial/howto to try to get this configured. The first problem seems to be that RHEL 4.0 doesn't allow "$" in the username when useradd is executed. When I create the useraccount and then edit the password and shadow files with vipw I still cannot get the Windows 2000 machine to join the domain. For what it's worth I have included the smb.conf in the email. What am I missing to get this working? Thanks in advance, Max # Global parameters [global] workgroup = NEWDOMAIN netbios name = Collie server string = File Server interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*Password* %n\n *Re-enter*new*password* %n\n *Password *changed* username map = /etc/samba/smbusers unix password sync = Yes log level = 1 syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/%m max log size = 50 smb ports = 139 445 name resolve order = wins bcast hosts time server = Yes printcap name = CUPS show add printer wizard = No add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u' delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G '%g' '%u' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -M -g machines '%u' shutdown script = /var/lib/samba/scripts/shutdown.sh abort shutdown script = /sbin/shutdown -c logon script = scripts\logon.bat logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = U: logon home = \\%L\home\%U domain logons = Yes local master = Yes os level = 33 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes utmp = Yes map acl inherit = Yes printing = cups veto oplock files = /*.doc/*.xls/*.mdb/ [IPC$] path = /tmp hosts allow = 10.6.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No