ok, i noticed some word-order issues in join-to-domain for the smbpasswd sam database option (i normally use --with-sam-pwdb=tdb so did not notice this). when you have a workstation join to a tng domain with smbpasswd file as the sam database, it _should_ now set the trust account password correctly, and this will have been noticeably failing before on any non-intel-word-order machines such as sun ultras and dec alphas etc. pleae report to samba-ntdom if it does or does not work for you, thank you. <a href=" mailto:lkcl@samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a> <a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl" > Samba and Network Development </a> <a href=" http://samba.org" > Samba Web site </a> <a href=" http://mcp.com" > Macmillan Technical Publishing </a> ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals