Hello - , This is my first posting on this site. I would like to know if it's possible for samba server to use the AFS authentication mechanism based on MIT Kerberos . AFS is a DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM having it's own ACL mechanisms . I am not able to pass the user authentication from the samba server to the Underlying AFS filesystems. AFS uses it's own pam module pam_afs.so . Do i need to modify Samba server code to actually get it to authenticate with AFS. Please advise on this. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks & Regards, Satish Kumar K.V Email : ksatish@in.ibm.com IBM India software labs, AFS Support, Ph : 6449724 ( 1225 )