Using "ldap password sync=yes" I can modify user password as admin through "net rpc user password" but if I try to modify it from the user (net rpc password myuser mypw -U myuser) or from windows (ctrl+alt+del). I get a timout error: [2006/03/16 21:52:40, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790) rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine alphacserver pipe \samr fnum 0x70e9returned critical error. Error was Call timed out: server did not respond after 10000 milliseconds [2006/03/16 21:52:40, 0] libsmb/clientgen.c:cli_rpc_pipe_close(375) cli_rpc_pipe_close: cli_close failed on pipe \samr, fnum 0x70e9 to machine alphacserver. Error was Call timed out: server did not respond after 10000 milliseconds from samba (loglevel 3) logs I see: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. [2006/03/16 21:08:38, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1051) Connection to LDAP server failed for the 15 try! [2006/03/16 21:08:39, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(922) smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. [2006/03/16 21:08:39, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1346) smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (Time limit exceeded) from ldap (loglevel 256+128) Mar 16 21:10:47 samba1 slapd[1993]: => access_allowed: read access to "uid=test45,ou=Users,dc=vercell1" "sambaPwdLastSet" requested Mar 16 21:10:47 samba1 slapd[1993]: <= root access granted Mar 16 21:10:47 samba1 slapd[1993]: => access_allowed: read access to "uid=test45,ou=Users,dc=vercell1" "userPassword" requested Mar 16 21:10:47 samba1 slapd[1993]: <= root access granted Mar 16 21:10:47 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 textMar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 op=3 MOD dn="uid=test45,ou=Users,dc=vercell1" Mar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 op=3 MOD attr=userPassword Mar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: <= acl_access_allowed: granted to database root Mar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 op=3 RESULT tag=103 err=0 textMar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 op=4 UNBIND Mar 16 21:10:49 samba1 slapd[1993]: conn=3 fd=18 closed Mar 16 21:10:56 samba1 slapd[1991]: conn=0 fd=11 closed Mar 16 21:11:04 samba1 slapd[1991]: conn=1 fd=12 closed Mar 16 21:11:04 samba1 slapd[1991]: conn=2 fd=15 closed slapd.conf acl : access to attrs=userPassword,sambaLMPassword,sambaNTPassword by self write by anonymous auth by * write access to * by self write by anonymous auth by * write I granted write to everyone to see if it was an authentication related matter but it doesn't look so. that's a really strange behaviour Can you help me? -- Thanks