Well hello ya all. first i would like to say, that we succesfully switched from a wind*s pdc to the samba 3 beta1 pdc. it all looks to work fine., we use tdbsam as pasword back end.. the only worries i get is the fact that some how the local user groups (administrator, users, guest ect ect) won't realy work. i mapped them in the same way i did with the domain groups (and those work just fine) but as soon as i use the windows user manager and select a local group, it gives an error in return. (the same action with domain groups works fine) second question i have is the password expire date, how can i set this up. now every user has to change once in a while, and also the computer ($) account's have 1 30 day valite time before expire.. (coz some workstations are win2k and other 98). i viewed the user list with pbdedit and most of them were 30 days and a few were valite till 2038. ?!? how do i change these dates ? (didn't work from within the wind*s user manager) well that's all what this happy samba user has to say... Collen Blijenberg MLHJ.