Hi, We configured Ads primary&Backup domain controller in windows 2003 server.weare able to fetch the user from primary domain controller by using samba configuration.But we are not able to fetch the user from the Backup domain controller. Sometimes, we are getting same set of users repeated again from the primary domain controller. The following are the commands that we are using to contact the Ads server from Samba to fetch the users. /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd /usr/local/samba/bin/net rpc join -U Administrator%password /usr/local/samba/sbin/winbindd /usr/local/samba/bin/net time set -I 192.168.0.xyz /usr/local/samba/bin/net ads join -U Administrator%password getent passwd Can anybody throw light on why this is happening? Thanks in advance for your inputs,