Hi , I don't know if this is the appropriate list to ask or say something like this ... What I would like to see is the complete samba configuration (smb.conf) in ldap. With the possibility of course for non ldap users to have it in a text file. I would set the different sections (global, printers, different shares) as separate objects in the tree. We are busy hacking pgina (the pluggable gina) and creating a new plugin to get the mappings from shares to drives for users from ldap. By combining these objects with the previous mentioned samba share objects we would get a very easy to manage (for junior admins, admins who like gui's). You would than : 1) create a share object 2) assign a share group object with the share object 3) put the user in this group This would be a first step on creating a file server as easy to manage as a win2k server. The rest of the ldap config would be filled in with bind_sdb_ldap, dhcp_ldap, qmail-ldap, ... What do you think ? Regards, Christian