Hello from germany and excuse me for disturbing you, following problem you have posted to samba mailinglist. Did you solved this problem? If yes may I ask you for help?> Im having an intermittent problem with samba. > Im running samba 3.0.2a on solaris 8 that i downloaded fromsunfreeware.com> I have my smb.conf setup to get passwords from my active directoryserver> and it usually works fine. > I ran a net join command like so to originally join the domain:regards Eduard Kumer