-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well I solved my problem myself. The docs told me to do groupadd which i did. I also created the group on NT side. Finally while I was just throwing out commands trying to troubleshoot. I did getent group and as I was gazing at the out put I noticed the GIDs between the NT and the local unix group were different. I edited /etc/groups and voila! I thought that when I did net groupmap or whatever that that would sync the required values??? Is that not so? Is there a better way of doing this other than what I've done? Data for the search engines.... my error in $sambalog/log.client was ... auth/auth_domain.c:domain_client_validate(193) domain_client_validate: unable to validate password for user in domain BELOINTERACTIVE to Domain controller and Error was NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL. and in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQCKaSJU2CEdgb9TCEQKPTQCeKyLdzWUe1LmlXcSnhuWtzXh7pS8AniH1 c9rn5TeZW7FB8oaa/u2pjqKQ =WpS6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----