Hi Pandy, if you?ve installed the samba2.2.2 yuo?ve also the _very_ good step by step howto on your harddisk. Just look on the DOCS folder beside the source. The file is called winbind.html. Just follow it any you?ll get what you?re looking for. regards from Germany Stephan Stephan Scheufen - IT Systems and Office Support Europe EBV ELEKTRONIK L?tscher Weg 66 - D-41334 Nettetal - Germany Fon: +49-2153-733-315 - Fax: 310 - Mail: s.scheufen@ebv.com -----Original Message----- From: Gaurang Pandya [mailto:gaubrig@yahoo.com] Sent: Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2001 06:29 To: samba Subject: Winbind Question. Hi Group, I have my samba 2.2.2 on RH Linux 7.1 as member of Windows 2000 ADS. When a samba share is used from Windows box it?s asking for Authentication and when user is authenticated he/she is able to connect to share. But what I want to do is it should not ask for Authentication it should directly get users credentials from windows box and allow/disallow the users. Without asking for username/password. How can this be done? Should I use WinBind for this?? If not can any one tell me what is use of WinBind?? Thanks in Advance. Gaurang. Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online at Yahoo! Greetings.