Hi all. I have samba 3.0.8 running on a redhat 7.3 server, I can join a domain using rpc, but if I use ads then I get ------------------------------- [root@x2scan root]# net ads join Computers -W SOFTCOM -U addtodomain addtodomain's password: [2004/11/19 14:38:07, 0] utils/net_ads.c:ads_startup(186) ads_connect: No such file or directory [root@x2scan root]# ------------------------------- Why do this error ocure ?, I have used the same options before so I am sure that it must work (that is, smb.conf is configured 100% correct so the problem does not lie there, also I have a debian sarge installation that can join the same domain with the same command using. If i run ldd on the net program then i get: ------------------------------- [root@x2scan websafe2.0]# ldd /usr/bin/net libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4001a000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40048000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40059000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4006e000) libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x40071000) libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x40078000) libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x4008a000) libcrypto.so.2 => /lib/libcrypto.so.2 (0x400e2000) libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x401a5000) libcom_err.so.3 => /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3 (0x401b5000) libldap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap.so.2 (0x401b7000) liblber.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber.so.2 (0x401e0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000) libsasl.so.7 => /usr/lib/libsasl.so.7 (0x401eb000) libssl.so.2 => /lib/libssl.so.2 (0x401f6000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) libgdbm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 (0x40223000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40229000) ------------------------------- this seams to be correct. The only problem left as far as I can see is that this computer in the past has been a part of a windows domian, can I somehow flush all of the samba config/cache so I amm 100% sure that I am starting from scratch ?. Regards. Lars Roland