I am having trouble getting samba to execute the add machine script properly. It seems to be executing this script as a non-root user. I am running trustix with the 2.4.30 kernel. Samba is version 3.0.14a. Here is the output from testparm: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[netlogon]" Processing section "[backup]" Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] workgroup = EE server string = Trustix Secure Linux Samba Server passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost/ log file = /var/log/samba/log.%I max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m "%u" delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-userdel "%u" add group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p "%g" delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupdel "%g" add user to group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m "%u" "%g" delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x "%u" "%g" set primary group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g "%g" "%u" add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u" logon script = logon.bat logon path logon drive = H: domain logons = Yes os level = 32 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins proxy = Yes wins support = Yes ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=experts-exchange,dc=com ldap delete dn = Yes ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap idmap suffix = ou=People ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers ldap passwd sync = Yes ldap suffix = dc=experts-exchange,dc=com ldap user suffix = ou=People [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/users/%S valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/samba/netlogon guest ok = Yes share modes = No [backup] comment = Backups path = /backup browseable = No When in run `net join EE -U root` I get the following error: [2005/07/07 17:06:26, 0] utils/net_ads.c:ads_startup(191) ads_connect: No results returned Creation of workstation account failed Unable to join domain EE. Here is a snippit of part of the log that is generated when i run that command. As you can see from the last lines, smbldap-useradd did not run properly because it could not open the smbldap.conf file. The permissions on this file are 0600; it is owned by root. [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(1038) smbldap_search: base => [dc=experts-exchange,dc=com], filter => [(&(uid=filese rver$)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))], scope => [2] [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_getsampwnam(1334) ldapsam_getsampwnam: Unable to locate user [fileserver$] count=0 [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:pop_sec_ctx(386) pop_sec_ctx (10000, 513) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam(293) Finding user fileserver$ [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(223) Trying _Get_Pwnam(), username as lowercase is fileserver$ [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(239) Trying _Get_Pwnam(), username as uppercase is FILESERVER$ [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(247) Checking combinations of 0 uppercase letters in fileserver$ [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] lib/username.c:Get_Pwnam_internals(251) Get_Pwnam_internals didn't find user [fileserver$]! [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 5] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2311) _samr_create_user: can add this account : False Unable to open /etc/opt/IDEALX/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf for reading ! Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd line 33. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd line 33. [2005/07/07 16:59:56, 0] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2324) _samr_create_user: Running the command `/usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "fi leserver$"' gave 2 How can I get this script to run as root? Brian Abreu