Hello guys :-) Last week I was configuring a samba server here in my linux box to act as a AD Domain member. Using Samba, kerberos5 and winbind i finally did it. Now, i have another problem, for each machine that i wanna do this, i need to add this machine in the Win2k AD Server (with the command net ads join -UAdmin etc) but, the problem is that i dont have the permission (or the admin account) to do this, so everytime i create a new machine in vmware i need to call the infra structure guys, and i dont want this, so the solution was, to create a new samba server that will be a domain controller, and my Virtual Machines would auth against this serverm and this server would auth each user against the AD. Example: $USER auth check the $USER and passwd @ AD VM ---------> Samba -------------------------------------> AD Resuming, the AD will be just a passwd server for samba. Does anyone knows if it is possible? Is there a way ? Thanks! Bruno Gola