I checked the docs I could find, and this list's archives, but I wasn't able to find an answer to this question. I want to join Linux workstations to my AD domain and have users logging on be authenticated against the AD domain as opposed to NIS. I don't see that Samba 3.0 will do this. Is that correct? If Samba 3.0 will enable Linux users to authenticate against AD, how does a Linux workstation get the user's UID, GID, and Unix home directory information? solutions such as the PADL software extend the AD scheme to accomodate these additions, bu I don't see that Samba 3.0 will do that. or, does AD integration in Samba 3.0 mean something else? ---Matt