This problem from November.. What version is it fixed in? I'm up against it on 2.2.3a -- ian Hello Folks, I am not a list member, but I thought that this will be useful information to those running Samba PDCs. I just got a new Dell Win2K box with SP2 installed, I ran all the critical updates from windowsupdate and tried to add the computer: I got this error "The following error occurred when joining domain DOMAINNAME: The account used is a computer account, Use your global user account or local user account to access this server". When I checked the PDC, the Linux machine user existed, as well as the smbpasswd user - with one difference - the SMB user password was set to "NO PASSWORD". Manually ading the machine did not help. Puzzled, since I had Win2K SP2 adding to the domain, I messed around with settings on the Samba server to no avail. Then I tested adding an NT machine with my original settings on the Samba PDC and it worked smoothly. I then checked adding another machine which had been running stand alone with all the critical updates - this machine would not add also. Checking the added pre-SP3 hotfixes on the new Dell box - I removed the one and only hotfix (and darn, I did not write down the Q number). The machine added smoothly after that. So I went back to the other stand alone box (which had a ton of hot fixes since it was patched via windows update from the base Win2K), I selected the hotfix that looked closest to the number I thought I remembered: Q 285851. Reboot, and then the machine added fine. I re-updated the machines via critical update, and they run fine. Remember that you need to remove both the Linux machine user "userdel machine$" and the corresponding line in smbpasswd before re-trying the machine add. Reading through the list, it looks like we have some more Windoze incompatibilities as microsoft continues to fix and break things. I suspect some of the other errors reported on the list are due to having too up-to-date a Win2K distro. Hope someone finds this useful. Best regards, ---Venkat.