Hi All, I'm trying to migrate from an NT4 domain to samba-3... sorry this is so long... when I run the "net rpc vampire" I get errors for users and machines in uppercase or contain uppercase chars. I'm in a test env before I go live! I'm on a gentoo distro w/ shadow. useradd FOO errors, this might be the culprit... I set up some dummy accts and made them members of groups. 3 machines testpdc = nt4 pdc station1 = w2k workstation lynxpdc = gentoo linux w/ samba3.0.0 I run winbind and do some net groupbind modify before I do the rpc net vampire. here is the output of net vampire: Fetching DOMAIN database SAM_DELTA_DOMAIN_INFO not handled Creating unix group: 'Domain Admins' Creating unix group: 'Domain Users' Creating unix group: 'Dwarfs' Creating unix group: 'Looneytunes' Creating unix group: 'Rockers' Creating unix group: 'Speedsters' Creating account: Administrator useradd: invalid user name 'Administrator' Could not create posix account info for 'Administrator' Creating account: Guest [2003/11/19 13:40:50, 0] passdb/pdb_tdb.c:tdbsam_getsampwrid(255) pdb_getsampwrid: Unable to open TDB rid database! usermod: user Guest does not exist Creating account: TESTPDC$ usermod: user TESTPDC$ does not exist Creating account: IUSR_TESTPDC useradd: invalid user name 'IUSR_TESTPDC' Could not create posix account info for 'IUSR_TESTPDC' Creating account: STATION1$ useradd: invalid user name 'STATION1$' Could not create posix account info for 'STATION1$' Creating account: grumpy Creating account: sleepy Creating account: sneezy Creating account: bashfull Creating account: bugs Creating account: cadmin Creating account: daffy Creating account: sammy Creating account: eddie Creating account: porsche Creating account: jeep Creating account: LYNXPDC$ useradd: invalid user name 'LYNXPDC$' Could not create posix account info for 'LYNXPDC$' Group members of Domain Admins: cadmin, Adding user cadmin to group Domain Admins Group members of Domain Users: TESTPDC$(primary),grumpy(primary),sleepy(primary),sneezy(primary),bashfull(p rimary),bugs(primary),cadmin(primary),daffy(primary),sammy(primary),eddie(pr imary),porsche(primary),jeep(primary), Group members of nobody: Guest(primary), Group members of Dwarfs: grumpy,sleepy,sneezy,bashfull, Adding user grumpy to group Dwarfs Adding user sleepy to group Dwarfs Adding user sneezy to group Dwarfs Adding user bashfull to group Dwarfs Group members of Looneytunes: bugs,daffy, Adding user bugs to group Looneytunes Adding user daffy to group Looneytunes Group members of Rockers: sammy,eddie, Adding user sammy to group Rockers Adding user eddie to group Rockers Group members of Speedsters: porsche,jeep, Adding user porsche to group Speedsters Adding user jeep to group Speedsters Fetching BUILTIN database SAM_DELTA_DOMAIN_INFO not handled here is my snb.conf [global] workgroup = LINUX netbios name = lynxpdc passdb backend = tdbsam os level = 33 preferred master = yes ; domain master = yes domain master = No local master = yes security = user encrypt passwords = yes domain logons = yes logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = H: logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile logon script = %m.bat add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false '%u' delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%s' add user to group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -a '%u' '%g' delete user from group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -d '%u' '%g' set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g '%g' '%u' ;add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g && getent group '%g'|awk -F: '{print $3}' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 winbind separator = + wins support = yes ; log level = 10 [netlogon] path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon read only = yes write list = ntadmin [profiles] path = /var/lib/samba/profiles read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 I commented out the addgroup line but the groups DO get created and the users are added to /etc/group Domain Admins:!:15000:cadmin Dwarfs:!:15002:grumpy,sleepy,sneezy,bashfull Looneytunes:!:15003:bugs,daffy Rockers:!:15004:sammy,eddie Speedsters:!:15005:porsche,jeep the users are added to /etc/passwd grumpy:x:1008:15001::/home/grumpy:/bin/false sleepy:x:1009:15001::/home/sleepy:/bin/false sneezy:x:1010:15001::/home/sneezy:/bin/false bashfull:x:1011:15001::/home/bashfull:/bin/false bugs:x:1012:15001::/home/bugs:/bin/false cadmin:x:1013:15001::/home/cadmin:/bin/false daffy:x:1014:15001::/home/daffy:/bin/false sammy:x:1015:15001::/home/sammy:/bin/false eddie:x:1016:15001::/home/eddie:/bin/false porsche:x:1017:15001::/home/porsche:/bin/false jeep:x:1018:15001::/home/jeep:/bin/false If I add the machines manually (in uppercase w/$) to /etc/passwd and try to run as a PDC the clients wont authenticate. Can anyone shed some light? thx, -chris