After a review of the smbldap-tools and: add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m "%u" delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-userdel "%u" add group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p "%g" delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupdel "%g" add user to group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m "%u" "%g" delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x "%u" "%g" set primary group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g "%g" "%u" add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u" Can these perl scripts be effectively replaced by the current incarnation of smbpasswd? -- Raymond