I have a very wierd situation on one of my samba servers. It is setup as a member of a Samba/LDAP domain and I cannot browse the shares unless I have the winbind service running. I have 4 other servers that do not use winbind and I can see those shares perfectly. I trying to view the files from an XP box (which can browse the other servers just fine) and I get an access is denied pop-up. However, as soon as I restart winbind I can see the shares. I use similar smb.conf files for the servers, the nsswitch.conf file is the same and the /usr/pam.d/login file is the same. It seems as if fails the samba group mappings and skips to winbind. I don't want to use winbind as it creates funky permissions on the folders and files. I don't use a win2k PDC so there is no need to have it running...it does not make any sense. Here is the error: make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! Any thoughts? Jason