Hi, I have Samba (2.2.8 I think, Redhat 9) running as a PDC with Win2K clients. I am using smbpasswd for authentication (no NIS or LDAP). Everything seems to work great. Users can login, profiles are roaming etc. My problem comes when I try to push Norton anti virus clients onto the domain computers from the server. I log into the local machine that is the antivirus server as administrator. When I choose the machine I want to install to, it prompts me for user/passwd. If I type in administrator/<admin passwd> I get user unknown or incorrect passwd. Administrator is the only user on the local machines and all the passwords are identical. Administrator does not exist on the Samba box, which is probably why I get the user unknown error. How do I authenticate a user that has permission to install Norton? Do I need to create a smb user with different group membership? Is there some other setting win Win2K I am missing? Thanks for the help. Tom Kovalcik Orion Design Technologies 122 Mast Road Lee, NH 03824 Phone: (603) 659-9800 x104 FAX: (603) 659-9870 kovalcik@orion-design.com Web site: http://www.orion-design.com