I'm trying to hack around the lack of any way to do sam replication from samba into windows. My current idea is this: Join an NT BDC to the domain Create an ERD of that BDC Edit the sam._ file to add the domain objects (users, groups) Reload the ERD It seems to me that with a slowly changing SAM you could run an NT BDC in a remote location (for example) by generating an ERD floppy image with a modified SAM every X hours, then having an admin at the remote site restore the system from the modified ERD by hand. If, that is, the format of the $$hive$$.tmp file, which the sam._ cabinet file expands to, is documented somewhere. Does anyone know of any such documentation? -- Michael D. Jurney mike@jurney.org