Wondering if anyone can help. Here is my situation, I have a RH 7.3 machine running a compiled from source rpm version of samba 2.2.7. We have been a win98se (which works great) shop for sometime but are migrating to XP Pro machines slowly. I can get the XP machine to join the domain (and the machine account is created in both the /etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpasswd file) but when I reboot and try and login as a user on the domain I get the following error: "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the doamin controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or becuase your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continuses to appear, contact your system administrator for assistance." Now I can just log into the local machine and map a drive no problem and i've done the sign or seal hack. Anyone have anythoughts? Thanks, Brad here is the globals,netlogon, and home section of my smb.conf file [global] nt acl support = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd nt pipe support = yes domain master = yes encrypt passwords = yes short preserve case = no wins support = yes max log size = 5000 password level = 4 nt status support = yes nt smb support = yes security = user local master = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u dns proxy = no valid users = root,@users,@root socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = /etc/printcap logon script = %U.bat passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* writeable = yes prefered master = yes domain admin group = +ntadmin domain logons = yes unix password sync = Yes workgroup = JDMC server string = JDMC Samba Server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log netbios name = THE-SCOOP load printers = no os level = 64 add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 501 -s /bin/false -M %u [netlogon] path = /home/netlogon public = no read only = yes [homes] path = %H volume = Private writable = yes comment = Private Share valid users = %S browseable = no create mode = 0764 directory mode = 0775