Hello, I have seen several examples of smb.conf's that use the "passwd chat" parameter. There isn't much explanation in the Samba documentation that I can see for this parameter, can someone explain a bit about what adding the parameter to your [global] section does for you? The examples usually look like this: passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* But I wonder what does it allow you to do, that is, how will this feature be used by the users on the box? Does it allow windows clients to get a dialog box of some sort that will let them change their passwd in the smbpasswd file? Or does it update their password in the /etc/passwd file? Or both? Thanks, Mike Partyka Stonepath Logistics Systems Administrator (651)405-4300 Desk (651)208-5734 Cell (651)405-4342 Fax