Group, Thanks in advance for any help on this. I am running samba-2.2.8a on RH 9.0. Periodically, the Winbind server secret password goes bad. Users authenticating to a joined Active Directory domain can no longer do so. Wbinfo -t shows "secret is 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 where 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 server into a high production environment. This instability is simply not acceptable. This is to replace a Microsoft box and to prove to management that Linux is a good alternative. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks, Mark Pelkoski