I searched the list archives and could not locate an answer. I apologize if this is a repeat question. I am manually creating machine accounts on our Suse 10.0 Linux running Samba 3.0.20. I need to do this as the vampire process is not working so I am hoping it would work after I manually create all groups, users and machine accounts. I already mapped groups with "net groupmap" and will map users with smbusers. The problem is that there are long machine names and machine names with spaces and the machine names are all uppercase. Do I use "smbusers" to do the mapping for machine names as well. The docs indicate that the name in /etc/passwd must be the exact machine name in the domain with a $ attached. What to do about spaces and long machine names if mapping via smbusers is the wrong way? Thanks, Guru