I have been reading the list archives and havent quite found what I am looking for so I will ask. I have a win2k3 PDC which houses all accounts on my network. I have a samba server configured for domain security and password server is the PDC. users can now use the print queue's on the samba server because they are getting authenticated on the PDC.This is great and no problem there. however, the only way I have been able to have users access directories on the samba server is by making user accounts on the samba server. what I really wanna do is have then authenticate thru the PDC. I would like to have a share on the samba server read/writable by group, and have people in that group authenticate to the PDC and access the shares on the samba server. any help there? thanks. -- 7:25am up 15 days, 23:59, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.17, 0.54 Darkman, "Seize the Night", http://www.clicqx.com --