What are the proper sequence/steps to: (1) Join a Samba server to a WIN2K AD domain where two domains reside with a two way trust. I am running 2.2.8a with winbind on RH Advanced Server. - Should smbd or nmbd be running when I run smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC -U AdminUserType%password? - Should I add the machine to the domain first via Windows Active Direcotry Users and Computers interface before running the smbpassword command above? (2) Make wbinfo --sequence see all domains as CONNECTED? Right now I am running into several scenarios that I cannot reproduce with any consistency. a. wbinfo --sequence DOMAINA DISCONNECTED DOMAINB CONNECTED DOMAINC DISCONNECTED b. wbinfo --sequence DOMAINA DISCONNECTED DOMAINB DISCONNECTED DOMAINC CONNECTED c. wbinfo --sequence DOMAINA CONNECTED DOMAINB CONNECTED DOMAINC CONNECTED Also, even when I can get wbinfo --sequence to see every domain as CONNECTED, getent group will list groups from all three domains, but some groups are missing....but if I go to Windows Active Directory Users and Computers GUI, these missing groups show up. What am I missing here? Here is my smb.conf file. # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 199.76.2.87 (199.76.2.87) # Date: 2003/06/11 12:38:30 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = CBT server string = Advance Server Samba Test Bed security = DOMAIN encrypt passwords = Yes password server = sjmemdc05 smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size = 50 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No wins server = 10.1.1.203 winbind uid = 10000-65000 winbind gid = 10000-65000 template shell = /bin/bash winbind separator = + [printers] comment = All Printers path = /usr/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/ read only = No available = No [TestShare] path = /home/testshare read only = No create mask = 0700 security mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 directory security mask = 0700 Bill P