I'm having trouble with the access: net -S localhost -U% rpc rights list accounts BUILTIN\Administrators SeMachineAccountPrivilege SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege SeBackupPrivilege SeRestorePrivilege SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege SePrintOperatorPrivilege SeAddUsersPrivilege SeDiskOperatorPrivilege So, there's several features available to the build in Administrators group. Are you saying this line in the smb.conf adds that status to a given user: admin users = myuser as in: admin users = bobtheadminguy tail -f /var/log/samba/log.wb-BUILTIN [2008/08/01 01:43:00, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:trustdom_recv(230) Could not receive trustdoms [2008/08/01 01:54:39, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:async_request_timeout_handler(181) async_request_timeout_handler: child pid 4520 is not responding. Closing connection to it. [2008/08/01 01:54:39, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:trustdom_recv(230) Could not receive trustdoms [2008/08/01 02:16:31, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:async_request_timeout_handler(181) async_request_timeout_handler: child pid 4766 is not responding. Closing connection to it. [2008/08/01 02:16:31, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:trustdom_recv(230) Could not receive trustdoms Upon deeper investigation, I'm seeing other errors. Here's it appears I've got a failure in winbind. I don't know what it's complaining about specifically, but obviously something isn't configured correctly. Here's my config: [global] workgroup = MYGROUP server string = Samba Server netbios name = THEBOX security = user hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. 10.10.10. log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 passdb backend = tdbsam local master = yes os level = 65 domain master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes wins support = yes hide unreadable = yes hide dot files = yes ; dns proxy = no nt acl support = yes inherit acls = yes ; map acl inherit = yes ; enable privileges = yes admin users = adminuser Opinions welcome. Right now, I can't seem to add a system as a "trusted machine," and it gives me the error that it can't find the name. I assume this meant the user name I added on the line [admin users = adminuser]. Windows XP Pro just waits a bit and says it can't find the user -- like the user I've logged in with doesn't exist. BTW, as long as I'm not trying to add the machine to the domain, I can view the share through Network Neiborhood. It even asks for a u/p and logs me in. I've not yet been able to test adding/removing files. -- Jason A. Nunnelley JasonN.com is my website - all opinions expressed were mine at some point.