Hi folks, I am having a significant issue that I cannot seem to resolve on my own. I am using samba 3.0 alpha 23 with ads support and winbindd. My linux samba servers is a part of my windows 2000 Active Directory domain. Here is my smb.conf file... # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2002/09/20 13:46:38 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = JCNTV realm = JCNTV.PRIVATE ADS server = 192.168.0.2 netbios name = ISAIAH interfaces = ########## bind interfaces only = Yes security = ADS #wins server = 192.168.0.2 encrypt passwords = yes #host msdfs = yes #msdfs root = no winbind gid = 60000-65000 winbind uid = 60000-65000 winbind separator = + template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash acl compatibility = Win2k winbind use default domain = yes [Inetpub] path = /usr/htdocs follow symlinks = no browsable = yes force create mode = 0664 force directory mode = 0775 writeable = yes write list = @JCNTV+Developers "@JCNTV+Domain Admins" nt acl support = yes [cdimages] path = /usr/local/cdroms/export public = yes writeable = no nt acl support = yes [home] path = /usr/home follow symlinks = no force create mode = 0660 force directory mode = 0770 browsable = yes nt acl support = yes writeable = yes public = yes [public] path = /usr/public follow symlinks = yes force create mode = 0664 force directory mode = 0775 browsable = yes writeable = yes The problem that I experience is from time to time, the GID/UID numbers just change! To give you an example, one of my windows groups, JCNTV+Domain Developers that was originally assigned the GID 60006 was reassigned the GID 60010. Now this is hell on my system because files and directories that were owned by that group under that GID are now inaccessible to them because the winbindd daemon is resolving the gid of the group to something different than the original id in the file or directories inode. So, I need a solution. Is there a smb.conf directive or something I can do to fix or turn off this behavior? Is this a known issue? Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Errol Neal