Ok I probably found the first problem with my system: I was using a domain name identical to the workgroup already set on the clients. I changed it and anything seems to work better infact I can now join the domain and the machine account it's created... BUT when the system ask me to create a new machine user the system give me this error: "cannot create user account since trust relationship with the PDC cannot be verified" or something of this kind since I'm translating it from italian.... WHAT'S THAT ????? P.P.S. I'm using samba 2.2.6 on a Mandrake Linux 8.2, I have got 6 clients using W2KSP3 P.S. The ccgm, ccgm-admin, satya, machine & guest groups are already set in the system groups file and all the user (including Administrator and root are correctly set in the smbpasswd) BTW that's my smb.conf file: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) # Date: 2002/10/29 14:39:43 # Global parameters [global] coding system = client code page = 850 code page directory = /var/lib/samba/codepages workgroup = CCGM-DOM netbios name = SERVER-CCGM netbios aliases = netbios scope = server string = CCGM Samba Server interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv = min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server = smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory = pam password change = No passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No username map = password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No admin log = No log level = 0 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = No max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt status support = Yes announce version = 4.5 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 stat cache size = 50 use mmap = Yes total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = lpstat disable spoolss = No enumports command = addprinter command = deleteprinter command = show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map = strip dot = No mangling method = hash character set = mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group = @ccgm-admin domain guest group = machine password timeout = 604800 add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ delete user script = logon script = logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 65 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = True local master = Yes domain master = True browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = Yes wins proxy = Yes wins server = wins support = Yes wins hook = kernel oplocks = Yes lock spin count = 3 lock spin time = 10 oplock break wait time = 0 add share command = change share command = delete share command = config file = preload = lock dir = /var/cache/samba pid directory = /var/run/samba utmp directory = wtmp directory = utmp = No default service = message command = dfree command = valid chars = remote announce = remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = auto.home time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment = panic action = hide local users = No host msdfs = No winbind uid = winbind gid = template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind use default domain = Yes comment = path = alternate permissions = No username = guest guest account = guest invalid users = valid users = @ccgm-admin, @ccgm, @satya admin users = @ccgm-admin read list = write list = printer admin = force user = force group = read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 force unknown acl user = 00 inherit permissions = No inherit acls = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = hosts deny = status = Yes nt acl support = Yes block size = 1024 max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = cups print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command = lpresume command = queuepause command = queueresume command = printer name = use client driver = No default devmode = No printer driver = printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = veto oplock files = map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map = browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes csc policy = manual fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy = include = exec = preexec close = No postexec = root preexec = root preexec close = No root postexec = available = Yes volume = fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend = magic script = magic output = delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object = vfs options = msdfs root = No [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root [CCGM Folder] comment = CCGM Private Folder path = /home/local/samba-private/ccgm valid users = @ccgm-admin, @ccgm write list = @ccgm read only = No [Satya Folder] comment = Satya Gr? Private Folder path = /home/local/samba-private/SatyaGra valid users = @ccgm-admin, @satya write list = @satya read only = No [public] comment = CCGM Folder path = /home/local/samba-public valid users = @ccgm-admin, @ccgm write list = @ccgm read only = No [netlogon] comment = NETLogon share path = /home/local/samba-netlogon write list = @ccgm-admi -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed