hi, I configured a samba server member of a AD domain. I tought that the system is working fine because user can access share on the linux box. But, i have some problem. I follow some how to &other doc i founded on the samba website. My problem is when i execute wbinfo -gu, winbing can lookup on AD to get the users. When i launch getent passwd; only local users are shown. Why? My other problem is when i create a file on a share (using a winXP client) file security is not the good one: ]# ll total 4 -rwxr--r-- 1 root ERITEST\domain users 8 sep 20 12:13 test.txt -rwxr--r-- 1 root ERITEST\domain users 0 sep 20 12:16 txt2 a) why root is the primary user instead of Administrator b)is there a way to set the primary group "ERITEST\domain users" to another one? c) maybe this problem is dependent of the first one (getent) Thanks for your help Guillaume In addition, i give you a sample of #testparm -v & nsswith.conf ################## ###SMB.CONF##### ################## dos charset = CP850 unix charset = UTF-8 display charset = LOCALE workgroup = ERITEST realm = ERITEST.FR netbios name = VALINOR netbios aliases netbios scope server string = Samba Server interfaces bind interfaces only = No security = ADS auth methods = winbind encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No client schannel = Auto server schannel = Auto allow trusted domains = Yes map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server = ungoliant.eritest.fr smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd private dir = /etc/samba passdb backend = smbpasswd algorithmic rid base = 1000 root directory guest account = nobody enable privileges = Yes pam password change = No passwd program passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No passwd chat timeout = 2 check password script username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = No restrict anonymous = 0 lanman auth = No ntlm auth = No client NTLMv2 auth = Yes client lanman auth = No client plaintext auth = No preload modules use kerberos keytab = No log level = 0 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 debug timestamp = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No enable core files = Yes smb ports = 445 139 large readwrite = Yes max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes disable netbios = No reset on zero vc = No acl compatibility = auto defer sharing violations = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt status support = Yes announce version = 4.9 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 16644 name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = Yes use spnego = Yes client signing = auto server signing = No client use spnego = Yes enable asu support = No svcctl list deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 kernel change notify = Yes fam change notify = Yes lpq cache time = 30 max smbd processes = 0 paranoid server security = Yes max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 open files database hash size = 10007 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 use mmap = Yes hostname lookups = No name cache timeout = 660 load printers = Yes printcap cache time = 750 printcap name = /etc/printcap cups server iprint server disable spoolss = No addport command enumports command addprinter command deleteprinter command show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map mangling method = hash2 mangle prefix = 1 max stat cache size = 0 stat cache = Yes machine password timeout = 604800 add user script rename user script delete user script add group script delete group script add user to group script delete user from group script set primary group script add machine script shutdown script abort shutdown script username map script logon script logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = No os level = 20 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = Auto local master = No domain master = No browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server wins support = No wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes lock spin count = 3 lock spin time = 10 oplock break wait time = 0 ldap admin dn ldap delete dn = No ldap group suffix ldap idmap suffix ldap machine suffix ldap passwd sync = no ldap replication sleep = 1000 ldap suffix ldap ssl = no ldap timeout = 15 ldap page size = 1024 ldap user suffix add share command change share command delete share command eventlog list config file preload lock directory = /var/cache/samba pid directory = /var/run utmp directory wtmp directory utmp = No default service message command get quota command set quota command remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = auto.home afs username map afs token lifetime = 604800 log nt token command time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No usershare allow guests = No usershare max shares = 0 usershare owner only = Yes usershare path = /var/cache/samba/usershares usershare prefix allow list usershare prefix deny list usershare template share panic action host msdfs = Yes passdb expand explicit = No idmap backend idmap uid = 15000-50000 idmap gid = 15000-50000 template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 300 winbind enum users = No winbind enum groups = No winbind use default domain = No winbind trusted domains only = No winbind nested groups = Yes winbind nss info = template winbind refresh tickets = No winbind offline logon = No comment path username invalid users valid users admin users = ERITEST\administrateur read list write list printer admin force user force group read only = Yes acl check permissions = Yes acl group control = No acl map full control = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 force unknown acl user = No inherit permissions = No inherit acls = No inherit owner = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow hosts deny allocation roundup size = 1048576 aio read size = 0 aio write size = 0 aio write behind ea support = No nt acl support = Yes profile acls = No map acl inherit = No afs share = No block size = 1024 change notify timeout = 60 max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No use sendfile = No write cache size = 0 max reported print jobs = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No printing = cups cups options = raw print command lpq command = %p lprm command lppause command lpresume command queuepause command queueresume command printer name use client driver = No default devmode = Yes force printername = No default case = lower case sensitive = Auto preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide special files = No hide unreadable = No hide unwriteable files = No delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map archive = Yes map hidden = No map system = No map readonly = yes mangled names = Yes mangled map store dos attributes = No dmapi support = No browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes csc policy = manual fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = Auto share modes = Yes dfree cache time = 0 dfree command copy include preexec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No root postexec available = Yes volume fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend magic script magic output delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = Yes dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs objects msdfs root = Yes msdfs proxy [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%U/ admin users = %U force user = %U read only = No browseable = No root preexec = /usr/sbin/mkhomedir %U %G #####NSSWITCH.CONF######## passwd: files winbind shadow: files winbind group: files winbind hosts: files dns ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files netgroup: nisplus publickey: nisplus automount: files nisplus aliases: files nisplus