hello, I'm just thinking about password synch between system's passwd file and smbusers file. There is a lot of documentation about it in samba's docs tree but I don't understand the reason of it. - it's possible to change user's samba pasword directly from Win 9x workstation on linux box? Which way? or - when admin change user's password using smbpasswd the password is changed in /etc/passwd (shadow) too? (If my fist meaning is bad). Last point: timestamp in smbusers file - can be usable to periodic password change if my first question is true? :) Sorry for my stupid question but my windows knownladge is little bit bad and in samba documentation is nothing about it. thank you for your help Lumir