After reading through the documentation, I am still not sure if my Samba servers are using encryption to talk to the password server. I use my NT PDC to authenticate connections to the Samba servers via the "security = SERVER" and "password server = PDC" options. According to the security_level.txt, the client negotiates encryption level with the samba server and then sends username/password information. It also says that the Samba server simply passes this information along to the password server if you are using the SERVER level of security. However, it does not say if the encryption option with work with this. I currently have both options on in smb.conf, and a debug level of 4. I do NOT have a smbpasswd file created. I do not see any errors in the log files. To summarize, is it possible to use encrypted passwords while authenticating on another server? If so, do I need a smbpasswd file? Thanks for the help! Ken Seitz - DRA Network Associate - http://www.dra.com - ken@dra.com