First thanks to all whom responded with great answers, I totally missed the domain logons =Yes in my config file. I have now put that in the config restarted samba and now all the win9x clients can join the domain but none of the XP clients here is some info below as stated in my previous email I added the machine accounts and user names no problem there and I used the XP Signorseal reg patch. Now what happens when I try to join XP it ask for username and password for joining to the domain I put in the root username and password then I get this error below that pops up on my screen. Your computrer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occured Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again. Here are some tail -f /var/log/nmbd info [2002/06/24 12:40:07, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:07, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:16, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:16, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:16, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:16, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:23, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:23, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x7 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x7 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:24, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:31, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:31, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x12 [2002/06/24 12:40:32, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x7 [2002/06/24 12:40:32, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(71) process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.11.31: code = 0x7 Nothing shows up in the /var/log/smbd when doing tail during this process. Also attached is a reasonably good doc to help me get started if I can get past these errors I will be ok. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed