Dear Samba Staff My name is Muddassar and in these days i am doing works on Linux Samba Server . I have found a problem to joining a Samba domain from Windows 2000 Professional , When joins the samba domain the win2000 asks me to give user name and its password of the domain ,when i enter the valid root User name and its password , after few seconds the the message is shows on the the screen there is a problem to joing Domain and the message is "The account used is a computer account . Use your global user user account or local user account to access this server ." While i have added the root to the smbadduser and its password , and also my smb.conf file is also clear from errors . Please tell me , i am very in trouble . There is no problem in win95 and win98 to joining the samba domain. i've also created the machine account . Please tell me the solution of this problem i am very grateful to all of You Yours Truly Muddassar Inayat