OK, got the Samba 3.0 LDAP migration script running and figured out how to get data from an ldif back into the database so that I can restore after makeing an attempt at 3.0 Problem is that I still have a problem. I get a couple of pages of these errors in the logs: Jul 14 16:31:00 enigma smbd3[8360]: [2003/07/14 16:31:00, 0] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string(164) Jul 14 16:31:00 enigma smbd3[8360]: convert_string: Required 18, available 32 Jul 14 16:31:00 enigma smbd3[8360]: [2003/07/14 16:31:00, 0] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string(164) Jul 14 16:31:00 enigma smbd3[8360]: convert_string: Required 18, available 32 Jul 14 16:31:00 enigma smbd3[8360]: [2003/07/14 16:31:00, 0] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string(164 Now if this is a database backend compatibility issue (i.e. I'm using the old schema) then it is no problem. Jim C.