Hello, I have been assigned the gracious honor of migrating all of our linux systems (with samba) from a domain environment to our new fancy schmancy Active Directory environment. We do not have any intentions of using ADS for login authentication. We only want to establish a transparent file sharing environment between our linux systems & Windows 2000 systems. I have been successfully upgrading our RedHat 9.0 systems, until I ran into a problem with the latest system (ralphie). After configuring the system, when I attempt to access any share on ralphie, I am prompted for a username and password. This automatically implies a broken connection since the share window should automatically appear. When checking the samba logs, I found the following error messages: [2004/12/06 14:36:51, 1] libads/kerberos_verify.c:ads_secrets_verify_ticket(155) ads_secrets_verify_ticket: failed to fetch machine password [2004/12/06 14:36:51, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(173) Failed to verify incoming ticket! here are the steps I followed to upgrade ralphie: *) Remove old samba-2.x rpms & install samba-3.0.9-1 that I downloaded from the samba site. *) Upgrade old krb5 rpms to ver. 1.3.4 (I used src RPMS & rebuild them for this machine) *) Use the tailored krb5.conf file & smb.conf file. *) modify smb.conf & change netbios name. *) Add Netbios name to Active Directory (on the Windows side) *) /usr/kerberos/bin/kinit administrator@COMP.COM --> (was successful) *) net -Uadministrator ads join --> (was successful) *) Start samba service. These steps worked on my other linux systems, so I'm confused why ralphie is not working. Does anyone have some suggestions or any ideas? -Rob