hello all I have read all the doc about ldap in the Samba documentation, and I am not sure I understand how a user authentication is validated by the samba server In the samba doc it is said that the samba ldap admin must be able to retrieve the lmPassword and ntPassword attributes of any user As I understand, when a user authenticates himself against the samba server, the server binds against LDAP server using the samba admin dn, looks for the user's password in the directory and compares it to the password the user provided Am I wrong ? If I am not, why the server doesn't use LDAP authentication with the user's dn and password ? I think it would be closer to the "LDAP spirit" thanks Francois