I'm following along with John T's examples book and I'm still befuddled on getting Samba working. The server is Fedora Core 5, Samba 3.0.23a-1.fc5.1 PDC is W2K SP4 with AD I basically copied/pasted the example smb.conf and nsswitch.conf to get a basic working config. The lines "template primary group" gave problems so I removed that one line. I run testparm -s and get: [root@cartman samba]# testparm -s Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[shared]" Loaded services file OK. 'winbind separator = +' might cause problems with group membership. <<-- What's that all about? Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER Here's smb.conf as reported by testparm: [global] unix charset = LOCALE workgroup = CONVEYORS realm = WWW.SYSTECCONVEYORS.COM server string = Cartman File Server security = ADS username map = /etc/samba/smbusers log level = 1 syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/%m max log size = 50 printcap name = CUPS ldap ssl = no idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 template shell = /bin/bash winbind separator = + [shared] comment = Shared Folder path = /home/shared read only = No [root@cartman samba]# nsswitch.conf: passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap hosts: files dns wins networks: files dns services: files protocols: files rpc: files ethers: files netmasks: files netgroup: files publickey: files bootparams: files automount: files aliases: files The Fedora box joins properly. [root@cartman etc]# net ads join -UAdministrator%########## Using short domain name -- CONVEYORS Joined 'CARTMAN' to realm 'WWW.SYSTECCONVEYORS.COM' I then start smb and winbind. [root@cartman etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start Starting SMB services: [ OK ] Starting NMB services: [ OK ] [root@cartman etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/winbind start Starting Winbind services: [ OK ] On my XP-SP2 workstation I go to Network Neighborhood, and in CONVEYORS I see the Fedora server there. I double click and it gives me: "\\CARTMAN is not accessible. You might not have permission ..." yadda yadda yadda wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g give me the names and groups as defined in the AD realm. However as John writes in the examples getent passwd and getent group do not. These just show me the linux groups and users and nothing from the AD. Ideas? -- Mike