hi samba users, thanx for giving me some hints about the sync. problem. i thought there must be an easy solution to this 'problem'. after doing some shell programming i got this: date -s "`smbclient -L <machine-name> | grep "Server time" | cut -f4-9 -d" "`" notice: this may be not the best solution but so far it works keep sambaing! jodok