hi ! i recently had problems with my ldap+pdc configuration. now there's a light at the end of the tunnel: i changed (among others) the name of the domain from "iem" to "iemnet" and it seems to work now. is it possible, that NT-domains must have more than 3 characters ? or might a problem arise, since there is a linux-host by that name ("iem") ?? another question: "iemnet" is my local unix-domain. does it make sense or is it dangerous or at least bad style to use the same name for the NT-domain too ? (i would have done so without looking twice, but my NT-collegue said he had a bad feeling about this) might there be any drawbacks ? mfg.fdsa.sd IOhannes