Dear list, I am trying to use winbind as the authentication mechanism for the Unix servers. I have this final roadblock, and would appreciate to get some help. In a test on a Linux box, everything works greatly, telnet, ftp, pop3, ssh. However, ironically, it broke samba. I suspect that the problem might be that I use "use default domain = yes" option. It is because we want to make everything transparent to users. (For example, use existing pop account setting.) At the moment, smbclient -L mySambaServer -U myDomain\\myUser seems to work. However, I cannot use the share from Windows side. net use y: \\mySambaServer\myShare /user:myDomain\myUser gives me (after password): (/user:myUser gives the same.) "System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is not correct." I'm using the following options in smb.conf =========================[global] security = domain encrypt password = yes password server = * winbind use default domain = yes obey pam restrictions = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 ======================= Here's /etc/pam.d/samba config. =======================auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_winbind.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_winbind.so account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session sufficient pam_winbind.so session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password sufficient pam_winbind.so password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth If possible I'd like to run samba server with "security=server and encrypt password=no" option while running winbind (for other services) with the above options, but I failed to make it work. This did not work. winbindd -s configFile1 smb -s configFile2 The problem seems again to be the winbind separator thing. I'd like to ask, if anyone uses winbind for logon unification, are you using it with the winbind separator? is it possible to do away with the separator and satisfy samba as well? Regards, Ben