My expiriences show that when you what to join a Samba2 machine to Samba3 PDC, and your charsets are not default, you MUST use "unix charset = UTF8" on the Samba3 PDC . When I use, for example, "unix charset = KOI8-R" , then Samba2 machine reports that join (or re-join) is successful, but really such a join is corrupt. If I try to join Samba3 to Samba3, all works fine (both KOI8-R and UTF8). Assume, it is useful report for non-default locale users... buc