I read the info in the samba 3.0 documentation about winbind (Chapter 21).. I successfully got up to the part "Join the Samba Server to the PDC Domain". I ran into difficulties at this point. I have a problem running the command: /usr/local/samba/bin/net rpc join -S PDC -U Administrator where PDC = the ip address of my Active directory server I suspect that the issue is due to the "incompleteness" of my smb.conf file. other than what is specifically needed in smb.conf for winbind setup per the documentation, what other variables do I need to have set in my smb.conf? thanks, cj -- Chris Jasper Perlegen Sciences 650-625-4500