hello, I keep gettiing a login prompt when I try to access shares on my newly created samba server. I am trying to use ad/rid (the best option if you want multiple samba servers in your environment?) wbinfo -a DOMAIN/mylogin%password authenticates correctly. wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g shows my groups and users fine. Do I need winbind uid/gid as well as idmap uid/gid? Do I need auth method? Should I use idmap backend = ad instead? Do I need pam support? I am really confused about what the right setup is now with samba. My smb.conf has: [global] workgroup = DOMAIN netbios name = svcanimp socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384 idmap uid = 10000-200000 idmap gid = 10000-200000 #idmap backend = ad idmap backend = idmap_rid:DOMAIN=10000-200000 use kerberos keytab = yes # os level = 65 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes #winbind use default domain = yes #winbind uid = 10000-200000 #winbind gid = 10000-200000 winbind separator = / encrypt passwords = yes server string = User management Server security = ADS #security = domain realm = DOMAIN.COM password server = ad.domain.com preferred master = no log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m log level = 10 #hosts allow = 10.69. 127.0. max log size = 50 local master = No dns proxy = No wins server = wins02 wins03 wins proxy = no name resolve order = hosts wins lmhosts bcast aio read size = 1 aio write size = 1 template homedir = /home/winnt/%D/%U template shell = /bin/bash #acl group control = yes #inherit permissions = Yes #inherit acls = Yes invalid users = root #auth methods = winbind #username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/username.map [homes] valid users = %S browseable = No read only = No David Shapiro Unix Team Lead 919-765-2011