Hello I have installed samba 2.2.6 with winbind and winbind-auth-challenge from ports. I have sucessfully added the machine to the win2k domain (still running in NT compat mode). when I try to run winbind... I get this: winbind -i -d100 winbindd version 2.2.6 started. Copyright The Samba Team 2000-2001 Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter netbios name = mRNA handle_netbios_name: set global_myname to: MRNA doing parameter workgroup = chemputers doing parameter server string = mRNA Samba server - It's unix baby! doing parameter wins support = No doing parameter wins server = 192.168.100.253 192.168.100.252 wins_srv_load_list(): Building WINS server list: 192.168.100.253, 192.168.100.252, 2 WINS servers listed. doing parameter winbind use default domain = YES doing parameter winbind uid = 10000-20000 doing parameter winbind gid = 10000-20000 doing parameter winbind enum users = no doing parameter winbind enum groups = no doing parameter hosts allow = 192.168.100. doing parameter load printers = no doing parameter max log size = 50 doing parameter security = domain doing parameter password server = 192.168.100.252 192.168.100.253 doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY doing parameter interfaces = fxp0 doing parameter dns proxy = no doing parameter client code page = 850 codepage_initialise: client code page = 850 load_client_codepage: loading codepage 850. Adding chars 0x85 0xb7 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xa0 0xb5 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x83 0xb6 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xc6 0xc7 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x84 0x8e (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x86 0x8f (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x91 0x92 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x87 0x80 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x8a 0xd4 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x82 0x90 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x88 0xd2 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x89 0xd3 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x8d 0xde (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xa1 0xd6 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x8c 0xd7 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x8b 0xd8 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xd0 0xd1 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xa4 0xa5 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x95 0xe3 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xa2 0xe0 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x93 0xe2 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xe4 0xe5 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x94 0x99 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x9b 0x9d (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x97 0xeb (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xa3 0xe9 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x96 0xea (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x81 0x9a (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xec 0xed (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0xe7 0xe8 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x9c 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) load_dos_unicode_map: 850 load_unicode_map: loading unicode map for codepage 850. load_unix_unicode_map: ISO8859-1 (init_done=0, override=0) load_unicode_map: loading unicode map for codepage ISO8859-1. Processing section "[homes]" doing parameter comment = Home Directories doing parameter browseable = yes doing parameter writeable = yes pm_process() returned Yes adding IPC service IPC$ adding IPC service ADMIN$ set_server_role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER added interface ip=192.168.100.254 bcast=192.168.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 codepage_initialise: called twice - ignoring second client code page = 850 added interface ip=192.168.100.254 bcast=192.168.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Could not look up dc's for domain CHEMPUTERS Could not open a connection to CHEMPUTERS for \PIPE\lsarpc (NT_STATUS_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_NOT_FOUND) Retrying startup domain sid fetch for CHEMPUTERS Could not look up dc's for domain CHEMPUTERS domain CHEMPUTERS already tried and failed Could not open a connection to CHEMPUTERS for \PIPE\lsarpc (NT_STATUS_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_NOT_FOUND) [...] repeats the last sentence on and on. Any idea? /tmp/.winbindd is not created.. I've read some posts concerning that. "Linux is for Microsoft haters. BSD is for Unix lovers." (Ruben van Staveren) Bruno Miguel Afonso, Biological Eng. student. brunomiguel at dequim dot ist dot utl dot pt D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal