hi I am running Samba 3.0.4 on solaris 9 in my smb.conf i defined passdb backend = tdbsam:/usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb, smbpasswd:/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd passwd program = /bin/passwd %u passwort encription = yes and in the pam.conf login auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so.1 other auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so.1 but I alwais get PAM_smbpass[5470]: [ID 772098 auth.alert] Cannot access samba password database ---------------------------------------------- The problem is, that when i compiled samba, with: (1) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass --with-acl-support --with-privatedir=/usr/local/samba/private --with-quotas (2) make (3) /export/home/install/_samba/samba-3.0.4/packaging/Solaris/makepkg.sh (4) pkgadd -d /tmp/samba.pkg (5) mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/private/ Anytime I create a user, (at first with useradd, and after it with smbpasswd -a) the file "/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd" has still zero size, so it cannot access none of the accounts from this file. Recently I found "/usr/local/samba/bin/updatesmbpasswd.sh" which can something like transform the etc/passwd into a smbpasswd format. ---------------------- has somebody an idea? ... or any solution is good for me. I just want to get SAMBA-PAM communication to work. tahnx Alexander