Hello, I'm using samba2.02 and shadowed passwords. I' m on the way to migrate from plaintext to encrypted password. Therefore I've set the parameter update encrypted to "Yes". After everyone has logged in I will set this parameter to "No" again and set encrypted passwd = Yes. So far, so good. But three questions are remaining for me: a) what to do with those who have not logged in during the parameter update encrypted =Yes is set. b) what I have to do when I add new users on the linux box (for every one to adduser and then smbpasswd -a)? c) what password database are win9x clients are manipulating when they are using command: "net passwd" I want to synchronize the passwd (or shadow) and smbpasswd at every time, because some of our clients are booting linux and windows depending on their work they have to do. The linux clients are using nfs and therefore are login with (plaintext) passwd and on the other hand when booting win9x they are login with encrypted smbpasswd (using samba). So the clients are able to change their pasword linux-like and from the windows side (net passwd). Most of them want to use the same passwords for linux and win9x booting. Therefore changes made in the password should be the same on the linux way and the windows way. Some hints? Ralf