Hello, I'm in the process of migrating from Samba 2.2.8a to 3.0.14a and also changing from NIS to LDAP. I've installed and populated SUN's Directory Server v5.2 and added the required schema extensions and imported some accounts for testing with Samba. Previously I used a NIS netgroup in the hosts allow clause, of the form @hosts_smb and this worked when the samba server system was still using NIS as its directory. Now that I've converted the samba server to use LDAP as its directory, samba will no longer find hosts in the netgroup. I've inserted the netgroup information into LDAP and the log information seems to indicate that it is looking there: [2005/08/18 17:31:21, 3] lib/access.c:only_ipaddrs_in_list(291) only_ipaddrs_in_list: list has non-ip address (@hosts_smb) [2005/08/18 17:31:21, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(316) check_access: hostnames in host allow/deny list. [2005/08/18 17:31:21, 5] lib/access.c:string_match(100) looking for 128.40.40.89 of domain ee.ucl.ac.uk in netgroup hosts_smb gave No [2005/08/18 17:31:21, 5] lib/access.c:string_match(100) looking for getafix.ee.ucl.ac.uk of domain ee.ucl.ac.uk in netgroup hosts_smb gave No Does samba look up the netgroup information in LDAP or do I have to use a list in the host allow clause? -- Tom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, Systems and Network Manager, EMAIL: tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, TEL: +44 (0)20 7679 3898 Torrington Place, FAX: +44 (0)20 7388 9325 London, UK, WC1E 7JE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------