My smb.conf is below wbinfo -u, -t, -g all work. getent works, but when I do wbinfo -a domain\\username%password I get: proxy:~# wbinfo -a cicero\\test1%ilbcnu plaintext password authentication failed error code was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER (0xc0000064) error messsage was: No such user Could not authenticate user cicero\test1%ilbcnu with plaintext password challenge/response password authentication failed error code was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER (0xc0000064) error messsage was: No such user Could not authenticate user cicero\test1 with challenge/response proxy:~# I have done a 'wbinfo -n test1' and it spits back its SID??? My smb.conf looks like this: unix charset = LOCALE workgroup = CICERO realm = CICERO.LOCAL server string = %h server (Samba %v) ; wins support = no ; wins server = w.x.y.z dns proxy = no ; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast #### Debugging/Accounting #### loglevel = 1 syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 ####### Authentication ####### security = ADS username map = /etc/samba/smbusers ldap ssl = no passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 template shell = /bin/bash winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind nested groups = Yes winbind separator = + __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com