Thanx for all the help with the last problem. Ended up being a simple missing line (domain logons = yes) that was causing all the problems. Two other little quirks that have cropped up. One, which is really the big one, I seem to have trouble synchronising the windows and unix passwords. Windows complains that the user name / password is wrong. Would this have something to do with Windows doing something to the password? (BTW, I'm using a mixed-client domain with win 98 and 2000 machines. This happens on both.) The second thing is that Win 2K wants to set H: to logon home. Any way around this? Thanks for all your help. Andrew