Hello, I'm totally new to the list - please excuse if the topic has been discussed in the past. We use Samba 2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.2.0. Samba is configured as PDC and all is working well, only the syncronisation of the unix password doesn't work. The trace of the by smbd executed external programms showed, that the passwd program is not executed. Using passwd chat debug shows that the chat hangs after "calling" passwd and waits for input which never comes. A test with an other shell script doesn't worked too. Has anyone some ideas? Help is very welcome! Thanks. Gottfried http://www.xtelligent.de/team/t_gosc.htm