Hi All! A few weeks ago I upgraded one of my customers from 2.2.7a to 2.2.12. I chose the download and compile option for 2.2.12 so that I had full control over what was going on and where the new version would live. This went very well until I found missing bits and pieces like smbpasswd etc etc. They live in new places on 12! I could quite happily swap between the two versions by killing the smbd and nmbd processes for one and restarted them for the other. Worked like a wiz! System runs as a PDC as well but now with flaky XP things connecting to samba for authentication etc and also wanting more out of samba I have decided to upgrade them to 3.0.7 or 9. I downloaded 3.0.7 and compiled it after making the RH9 change to the config files and have installed it in /usr/local/samba3 as the base. I have not linked any of the files yet! I have followed many of the steps in "Chapter 6. Making Users Happy" of the really super Samba Guide on the samba site(s) - well done writers! Almost ready to test out the ldap server when the thought struck me - what if I break this system? Not really a major train smash but still a problem. So this begs the question, can I swap happily between samba 2 sans ldap and samba 3 with ldap? Are there files I need to backup other than those in /usr/local/samba where my 2.2.12 version lives. What about the tdb files in /var/cache/samba? Any other things I need to do? Any docs to look at? Cheers Ang -- Angela Williams Enterprise Outsourcing SCO Unix/Linux & Cisco spoken here! Bedfordview awilliams@eoh.co.za Gauteng South Africa Smile!! Jesus Loves You!!