Group, Thanks in advance for any help on this. I am running samba-2.2.8a on RH 9.0. Periodically, the server secret password goes bad. By joining the AD domain again and bouncing the smb and winbind services makes it good again. My question is, what is the secret to getting this stable enough to were the secret never goes bad? Is there a way to automatically check or actively change the secret password in order for the NTLM authentication process does not stop working? I plan on implementing this serving into a high production environment. This instability is simply not acceptable. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks, Mark Pelkoski