I am testing a new installation of samba as a PDC. I manually created the users and groups since the old PDC is an ADS Win2k server and the vampire process does not work in that situation. When I log into the Samba PDC domain via a test client running a Winxp pro, I have to use the old password instead of the one I created using smbpasswd. How can I synchronize the passwords? I would rather keep the old passwords if possible. Also, how do I get samba to use smbpasswd settings to validate the passwords? Thanks, Guru