I think I'm almost there getting Samba (3.4.9-60) to authenticate against FDS (1.2.6.1) but I'm at a loss to get over this last hurdle.? Total LDAP newbie here so nothing about any of this is obvious to me right now. I've been using http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba as a guide.? I've configured FDS and put in groups and users.? AFAIK I've configured Samba to use FDS to authenticate users.? After some bumps with DHCP and DNS and other nitpicky issues I got my WinXP Pro to talk to Samba, but it's not not authenticating users. WinXP is spitting out the following: "The network path was not found." When I try to add an existing local user I get the following: $ sudo smbpasswd homeadmin Failed to issue the StartTLS instruction: Can't contact LDAP server Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try! Failed to issue the StartTLS instruction: Can't contact LDAP server Connection to LDAP server failed for the 2 try! Failed to issue the StartTLS instruction: Can't contact LDAP server Connection to LDAP server failed for the 3 try! <snip> I created a self-signed cert for FDS, registered it and restarted the service but it doesn't seem like it's had any effect. My global section is as follows: [global] ??????? large readwrite = yes ??????? display charset = LOCALE ??????? time server = yes ??????? veto files = /*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ ??????? netbios name = home ??????? cups options = raw ??????? printing = cups ??????? dos charset = CP850 ??????? local master = yes ??????? workgroup = HOME ??????? os level = 33 ??????? auto services = global netlogon ??????? ldap admin dn = "cn=admin,dc=home" ??????? printcap name = cups ??????? security = user ??????? max log size = 150 ??????? log level = 0 ??????? log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log ??????? load printers = yes ??????? guest account = nobody ??????? ldap user suffix = ou=People ??????? socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 ??????? logon drive = H: ??????? domain master = yes ??????? map to guest = Bad User ??????? encrypt passwords = yes ??????? winbind use default domain = no ??????? printer admin = root, @ntadmin, administrator ??????? template shell = /bin/bash ??????? wins support = true ??????? unix extensions = no ??????? username map script = /usr/share/hda-platform/hda-usermap ??????? ldapsam:trusted = yes ??????? ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ??????? server string = home ??????? wide links = yes ??????? ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers ??????? ldap suffix = dc=home ??????? ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap ??????? ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=home ??????? idmap backend = ldap://127.0.0.1 ??????? idmap uid = 10000-20000 ??????? idmap gid = 10000-20000 ??????? logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U ??????? unix charset = UTF8 ??????? domain logons = yes ??????? passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://home ??????? ldap ssl = start_tls ??????? add user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m '%U' ??????? delete user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-userdel '%U' ??????? add group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p '%G' ??????? delete group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupdel '%G' ??????? add user to group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m '%G' '%U' ??????? delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x '%G' '%U' ??????? set primary group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g '%G' '%U' ??????? add machine script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w '%U' Thanks in advance for any useful help... If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet. -- Jen Barber