If I can do one but not the other, is this something that I should be worried about? testparm -s reveals no errors in my smb.conf ..... Should I fix it? is it critical? foobar1:/usr/sbin/samba# net getlocalsid [2004/11/24 13:38:25, 0] utils/net.c:net_getlocalsid(486) Can't fetch domain SID for name: FOOBAR1 foobar1:/usr/sbin/samba# net rpc info Domain Name: FOOBAR Domain SID: S-1-5-21-1766222747-123456826-1539857752 Sequence number: 1101264348 Num users: 0 Num domain groups: 19 Num local groups: 0 foobar1:/usr/sbin/samba# Regards Geoff Scott