The exact configuration mentioned below used to work on rhel3, and when updated to rhel4 it stopped working... when visited the samba log file, there was this error : useradd: invalid user name 'wpvm01$' rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2272) could not add user/computer wpvm01$ to passdb. Check permissions? [2005/03/17 07:42:27, 0] passdb/pdb_tdb.c:tdb_update_sam(609) tdb_update_sam: Failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [wpvm01$] without a primary group RID [2005/03/17 07:42:27, 0] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2272) could not add user/computer wpvm01$ to passdb. Check permissions? this happens when I try to add a windows 200 Client to the domain... I am using samb 3.0.11 My smb.conf is [global] netbios name = QA1 workgroup = ERR.CHK passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes pam password change = yes encrypt passwords = yes unix password sync = yes wins support = yes add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false \ -d /dev/null %u logon script = scripts\logon.bat os level = 33 preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes security = user domain logons = yes logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U logon drive = H: logon home = \\%N\%U idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 admin users = @admins any pointer or help would be very helpfull regards __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/