Hello, I use samba/winbind and pam to authenticate to our Active Directory. I ask pam to create the user home directory on linux when the user does a login. it works just fine but the problem that I'm having is that in the home directory I end up having tons of user homes but they've never logged into this linux system. have you experienced this, any solutions, ideas? thank you. my smb.conf [global]workgroup = XYZserver string = Centos5 Test System Samba Serverhosts allow = 10. 127.load printers = nosecurity = adspassword server = dc1.xyz.com encrypt passwords = yesobey pam restrictions = yeslocal master = nodomain master = nopreferred master = nodomain logons = nolm announce = noidmap uid = 10000-200000idmap gid = 10000-200000winbind enum users = yeswinbind enum groups = yeswinbind use default domain = yeswinbind cache time = 15name resolve order = hosts lmhosts wins bcastrealm = ABC.XYZ.COMtemplate shell = /bin/bashtemplate homedir = /home/XYZ/%Uallow trusted domains = noidmap backend = idmap_rid:XYZ=10000-200000log file = /var/log/samba/%m.logmax log size = 50000 system-auth file #%PAM-1.0auth required pam_env.soauth sufficient pam_winbind.soauth sufficient pam_unix.so likeauth nullok use_first_passauth required pam_deny.so account required pam_access.soaccount sufficient pam_winbind.soaccount required pam_unix.soaccount sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quietaccount required pam_permit.so password requisite pam_cracklib.so retry=3password sufficient pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadowpassword required pam_deny.so session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077session required pam_limits.sosession required pam_unix.so _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with free Messenger emoticons. Get them today! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122