Still not working to send msg please send to list for me, and let me know if you have an answer, please?! ------------------Here is the problem---------------- please help me get this out! W2k w/SMB no longer trusted. help Here's my story...sad but true. I've got a run-away PDC, that makes me blue. It don't see my NT-clients nice anymore, now it says, "get offa my Floor" And I'm in the doghouse so I'm writing you so that I don't kicked out,and get black and blue ------------ Mind you. this has been going on since July 10th, but I couldn't mail the list for 3 weeks! This is STILL not letting me post. please forward this for me?!thanks Here is the problem: I have several W2k Workstations, with a SAMBA 2.2.3 PDC. Problem is that I must have removed all of the important parts of the server validation. Here's the story: OUTLAND is domain, W2k/ clients are milo and lola They WERE working fine on the domain. I did SOMETHING (??) and now I get a message that says (when I try and log on: The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is incorrect. now: I tried to delete the machine accounts (milo$ and lola$) using userdel and smbpasswd -x to eliminate all traces. Tried to change out of domain, changed machine name, log in: still no good, same messages. Then I tried the same thing, but this time also deleted the secrets.tdb file. Then did a smbpasswd to add the root account again. STILL same problem HELP! I have no idea what to do! The last thing I tried was to to change the machine name and out of the outland domain. So I tried to change the name of the client to stevedallas, and the workgroup to temp That change worked ok. After this, I logged in, ok (as admin), and was then able to change back to outland domain. Now I was able to log in as workstation/administator and I added new user/browse and it did see the outland domain. I click my outland domain name, and next and the the message: The user could not be added because the following error has occurred. The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. SO I am stuck without getting any user logins (at least I can login as admin... please point me in the right direction??? thanks Mitch--This is not my final comcast address. it will be changing to eliminate spam!