Hello all, I am setting up samba 3.0.23c as a domain member of win2003 active directory- the following steps were successful: 1-join the domain (Joined domain CAD) 2-nmbd, smbd and winbindd were started fine 3-edited nsswich.conf a-passwd files winbind b-group files winbind 4-wbinfo -u and -g worked fine i could see the users and the groups as well as getnet passwd user -all fine 5- wbinfo -t return* checking the trust secret via RPC calls succeeded* First question: when I created a folder on samba then changed the owner to be one of the AD users the ls -l that folder i get -rw-r--r-- 1 *10002* root 0 Jan 4 12:15 file *INSTEAD OF* -rw-r--r-- 1 *John* root 0 Jan 4 12:15 file so instead of getting back the owner name i get the owner UID? Second question which the more important one is on my client machine XP pro i could browse the network and get to see my share (user share) however when i double click it i get a login asking for the user name and password I am missing something because i thought that winbind should authenticate the user against the windows 2003 AD once i login? smb.conf: [global] workgroup = CAD netbios name = testbox security = DOMAIN idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 winbind use default domain = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No