Hi there It looks like Samba-2.20 doesn't like running without a smbpasswd file. We use Samba-2.0.7 here as a domain member, i.e Domain Users attach to Samba server, Samba asks PDC to confirm password, then "add user script" runs if necessary to create user. At no stage is /etc/smbpasswd referred to. Of course if I tried to login as "root" (which isn't a Domain usercode), Samba-2.0.7 then either looks in /etc/smbpasswd for root, or returns an error that smbpasswd doesn't exist- fine. Samba 2.2.0 just immediately starts going on about /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd not existing in the identical configuration. Looks to me that it's looked for first instead of last as in 2.0.7? -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417