Hi all I have system with Redhat Enterprise Server 4.0 with SAMBA 3 . i want to configure samba 3 with LDAP, to integrate LDAP with PAM , it's not working, ie i am unable to join clients to the samba server and when i type the following command it's does not show any thing getent passwd | grep Administrators My windows clients, cannot join to the SAMBA PDC, ie when i give the domain, its asks for username and password. i have user root and given password but it says "username cannot be found" my pam.d/login file is ######################################################### auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required pam_nologin.so *auth sufficient pam_ldap.so* account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth # pam_selinux.so close should be the first session rule session required pam_selinux.so close session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional pam_console.so # pam_selinux.so open should be the last session rule session required pam_selinux.so multiple open #################################################### pam.d/passwd file ################################################### #%PAM-1.0 account sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth ####################################################### pam.d/samba file ######################################################### #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth ######################################## pam.d/sshd ##############################################3 #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required pam_nologin.so account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth ########################################## Regards Niranjan