I have a test machine that was running 3.0.22 (Debian testing), providing NTLM authentication for a Squid installation. Today I upgraded Squid to the current Debian testing version, and NTLM authentication stopped working. When I took a look at the /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged directory permissions, they were fine. Then tried to look at the pipe itself, and it was gone. ! /tmp/.winbind/pipe was still there though. Restarting samba and winbind did not restore the pipe. I had to re-install samba. A quick Google search didn't generate a whole lot of results, so I don't think this is a common problem. Any reason that the pipe would be deleted? And how would a missing pipe be re-generated without a re-install of samba? James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236 Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591