Hi Folks, Two houses - one at "home" and one at "uni". Each house has it's own subnet with a few W2k/XP clients and a FC4 (samba-3.0.14a-2) server. The two servers are linked by a routing OpenVPN link. I have the uni server set up as a PDC using smbpasswd authentication and everything is working fine. Now I want to extend the domain to my freshly installed home server, so that I can log on to the same domain from either home or uni, but I will always be logged on to the phycically closer server. I'm guessing that this involves making the 'home' server a BDC? Whilst browsing around for a HOWTO, I came across a document that strongly dissaproved of using smbpasswd in a PDC/BDC environment due to having to sync /etc/passwd, /etc/group, smbpasswd, etc... What is the general consensus on this? Could someone point me to some good HOWTOs on setting up the sort of network I want? I've only come across docs describing PDC/BDC configurations on the same subnet, or involving LDAP. I'm not too keen on going the LDAP route as I have very little knowledge of it and it seems somewhat overkill for my situation! Thanks in advance, Andy