My smb.conf and nsswitch.conf and /etc/pam.d/samba and login are below. Pam and winbind are configured. Are my config's correct? I have about 40 workstations using redhat 9. Im using Samba 3.0.0 and I am trying to use a Windows 2003 Active Directory server for authentication. Using LDAP for auth. I can see the users and groups and If i login with the local account root, open a terminal window and say su <domain+user> it will bring me to a new shell. Because i am root it won't ask me for a password. If i login with another local machine account and say su <domain+user> it will prompt for a password and wont accept anything i give it. When redhat 9 boots I try to login with <domain+user> and it wont accept anything other than the local machine accounts. I issue this command net rpc join -S <MYPDCDOMAINNAME> -U <MYADMINACCT> I get joined the domain <MYDOMAIN> winbindd does start I issue wbinfo -u and it shows all the users on the domain. I issue wbinfo -g and it shows all the groups on the domain I issue getent passwd and it shows all the users in UNIX format I start smb daemons in this order smbd nmbd winbindd <<SMB.CONF>> [global] winbind separator = + winbind cache time = 10 template shell = /bin/bash template homedir = /home/%D/%U idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 workgroup = <mydomain> security = domain password server = <MY PRIMARY DOMAIN CONTOLLER SERVER> **There is an LDAP server but if I put that here I cant list users** <<NSSWITCH.CONF>> passwd: files winbind shadow: files group: files winbind hosts: files dns bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files netgroup: files publickey: nisplus automount: files aliases: files nisplus <</etc/pam.d/samba>> #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth <</etc/pam.d/login>> #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_UNIX.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so