I setup my samba sever to use ldap as a backend for authentication I can connect to the ldap directory using ldapAdmin from windows xp and diradmin in FC3 and administer the ldap directory but when I issue a command from the teminal window ( smbpasswd -a test I got the following error. ldap_initialized: time limit exceeded connetion to LDAP sever failed fot the 1 try ldap_initialized: time limit exceeded connetion to LDAP sever failed fot the 2 try ldap_initialized: time limit exceeded connetion to LDAP sever failed fot the 3 try ldap_initialized: time limit exceeded connetion to LDAP sever failed fot the 4 try ldap_initialized: time limit exceeded connetion to LDAP sever failed fot the 5 try How can I resolve this problem. Thanks alton