Sigh, Someday i will get samba to work on aix. Now I rebuild samba because I discovered that you needed to request it to build idmap_rid.so or it will not make it. After the rebuild I moved over the smb.conf again and net ads joined again. When I try to start samba, however, it panics with this information: smb_register_idmap: Successfully added idmap backend 'tdb' [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 10] ../sam/idmap_tdb.c:db_idmap_init(500) db_idmap_init: Opening tdbfile /usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 3] ../sam/idmap.c:idmap_init(132) idmap_init: using 'idmap_rid' as remote backend [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 5] ../lib/module.c:smb_probe_module(104) Probing module 'idmap_rid' [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 5] ../lib/module.c:smb_probe_module(115) Probing module 'idmap_rid': Trying to load from /usr/local/samba/lib/idmap/idmap_rid.so [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 0] ../lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) ==============================================================[2006/02/07 09:16:34, 0] ../lib/fault.c:fault_report(37) INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 23932 (3.0.21a) Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 0] ../lib/fault.c:fault_report(39) From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf [2006/02/07 09:16:34, 0] ../lib/fault.c:fault_report(40) ==============================================================[2006/02/07 09:16:34, 0] ../lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1554) PANIC: internal error I opened the howto, but I do not see anything related to this error. Any help would be appreciated. david smb.conf: [global] workgroup = DOMAIN realm = DOMAIN.COM server string = User management Server security = ADS allow trusted domains = No password server = ad.domain.com log level = 10 log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve order = hosts wins lmhosts bcast socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384 preferred master = No local master = No dns proxy = No wins server = wins01 wins02 idmap backend = idmap_rid:DOMAIN=100000-2000000 idmap uid = 100000-200000 idmap gid = 100000-200000 winbind separator = + winbind enum users = No winbind enum groups = No winbind use default domain = Yes winbind nested groups = Yes aio read size = 1 aio write size = 1 [home] path = /home/%D/%u valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [samba] path = /usr/local/samba username = DOMAIN+mylogin valid users = DOMAIN+mylogin force user = root David Shapiro Unix Team Lead 919-765-2011