I have set up samba to be a AD member and no other linux boxes. It worked well. I set up samba to be a PDS with no other linux boxes. It worked well. Now, I need to make a samba client that works with the samba PDS. I can join the domain. winbind can list users and such. getent doesnt work. I can see the authentication succeeding on the PDS but I cant access any shares. smbclient -L DOMAIN shows all the shares. I just cant seem to authenticate except as root. I realize that this PDC is not AD so i dont need krb but I dont know what I need to authenticate between the samba machines. I thought this was going to be easy. Here is my PDC smb.conf # PDC Samba Configuration File # by Lorenzo Allori <lallori@medici.org> # To be edited and then copied to /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf # REMEMBER TO EDIT THIS BEFORE COPYNG IN THE DIRECTORY AND RUNNING SAMBA. [global] netbios name = SERENITY workgroup = SERENITY log level = 2 log file = /var/log/samba/sambapdc.log security = share ;invalid users = root interfaces = 192.168.1.172/255.255.255.0 security = user server string = %h server (Samba %v) syslog only = no # Performance tuning # Remember to increase or decrease by 1024 SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 # If you are accessing by multiple users to a single MSAccess File (*.mdb) # Uncomment theese two lines about oplocks you have to disable them. # oplocks = False # level2oplocks = False encrypt passwords = yes # NT Domain Section wins support = yes os level = 34 domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes logon script = logon.bat # Where the scripts resides. logon path = \\SERENITY\profiles\%u # Where the profiles are logon home = \\SERENITY\home\samba\users\%u name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast dns proxy = no smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd # Uncomment this lines only if you know what you are doing. # unix password sync = yes # passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u # passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:*\ # %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . # How long do you want the samba log file to be? max log size = 2000 time server = yes [netlogon] path = /home/samba/netlogon public = no writeable = no browsable = no read only = yes write list = administrator [profiles] create mode = 0600 directory mode = 0700 path = /home/samba/profiles ;profile acls = yes read only = no writable = yes browseable = no And this works fine with windows boxes. Roaming profiles and the whole bit. here is my member smb.conf [global] workgroup = SERENITY security = domain password server = * hosts allow = 192.168.1., 192.168.3., 127. load printers = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes printer admin = root, @"SERENITY\domain" [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = no write list = root [public] path = /shares public = Yes read only = no browseable = Yes valid users = @"SERENITY\users" [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = Yes valid users = %D+%S create mode = 0664 Is there someting I need to change to in nsswitch.conf or /etc/pam.d/samba. Another way to authenticate? I hope someone can point me in the right direction. thanks harry