Hi all I have a samba pdc (3.0.21c) with openldap (2.3.19) on the same server, i have setup another system as bdc (samba 3.0.21c) with slave ldap server (both samba and ldap are running on same machine). on the master ldap server i have rootdn "cn=manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com" and if i setup on the slave ldap server rootdn "cn=manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com" and in the slave ldap server, updatedn points to rootdn of the slave ldap server. ie updatedn is "cn=manager,dc=msdpl,dc=com" so my query is can both master and slave rootdn be same. Regards Niranjan