Guys I have configured a samba 2.28-a server as a LDAP PDC. It is installed on Red Hat 9.0 server. I can ssh into the server and logon to using ldap to authenticate. I can browse to the server from my XP machine and authenticated using LDAP accounts and see al the shares What I cann't do is log on to the domain. I have created the computer account manually using the samba - ldap tools I have created a dummy root account with uid=0 in LDAP that I use for joining up to the domain. When I to join the XP machine to the domain I get access denied error And yes I have performed the reg hack for XP I have included the smb.conf file below I'm going around in circles every howto I read seems to say everything that I already have done. [global] ## Ldap Stuff ldap admin dn = "cn=root,dc=lincom,dc=net" ldap server = ldapsmb.lincom.com.au ldap suffix = "ou=People,dc=lincom,dc=net" ldap port = 389 ldap ssl = start_tls workgroup = office netbios name = pdc1 comment = Linux RedHat Samba Server security = user encrypt passwords = yes logon drive = U: logon path = \\%L\profiles\%G domain logons = yes domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 255 wins support = yes log level = 5 log file = /var/samba/logs [netlogon] path = /export/netlogon locking = no writeable = no guest ok = no browseable = yes [profiles] path = /export/profiles writeable = yes guest ok = yes browseable = yes Cheers Chris Tepaske Lincom Solutions Pty Ltd Senior System Consultant Mobile: 0409 043 618 Email: chris@lincom.net.au