Hello, I have Samba setup with as a domain member server (security = ADS). wbinfo -g works wbinfo -u works getent passwd works getent group works There is a directory name /dir/shared with the following permissions. drwxrwxrwx 2 root users The information shows up fine in Windows on the security tab root (Unix User\root) usesrs (Unix Group\uses) Now, I go into the Linux file system and change the directory permissions as follows: chown -R "DOMAIN\administrator" shared/ && chgrp -R "DOMAIN\Domain Users" shared/ ls -ltr drwxrwxrwx+ 2 DOMAIN\administror DOMAIN\domain users 4.0K Note: If I mistype administrator an error is recieved. Which again demonstrates windbindd is working. chown: `DOMAIN\\Administrator': invalid user When I go back and check the security permissions on Windows the accounts are replaced with SIDs Has anyone had this happen? How did you resolve it? [global] workgroup = DOMAIN netbios name = VENENCIA realm = BAMBINO.COM <http://bambino.com/> server string = File Server security = ADS encrypt passwords = yes log level = 5 log file = /var/log/samba/%m max log size = 1000 wins server = 10.20.1.2 idmap uid = 20000 - 30000 idmap gid = 20000 - 30000 interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = yes enable privileges = yes [shared] comment = Shared (temporary storage) path = /community/shared read only = no store dos attributes = yes nt acl support = yes map acl inherit = yes inherit acls = yes valid users = @"DOMAIN\Domain Users" Thanks in advance.....