Hi. I'm running FreeBSD with Samba 3.0.28 and have had success previously with FreeBSD and an earlier version of Samba, and am in the process of setting up a member server to act as a file server using the above combination. I have created a kerberos ticket, and successfully joined the domain: ksm-smb# net ads join -UAdministrator%password Using short domain name -- END-DESIGN Joined 'KSM-SMB' to realm 'END-DESIGN.PRI' ksm-smb# net ads testjoin Join is OK ksm-smb# However, I get from log.winbindd-idmap: [2008/01/14 09:57:38, 1] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_init(377) Initializing idmap domains [2008/01/14 10:02:37, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:async_request_timeout_handler(181) async_request_timeout_handler: child pid 24842 is not responding. Closing connection to it. [2008/01/14 10:02:37, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:trustdom_recv(235) Could not receive trustdoms Doing a wbinfo -u or -g, receives a list of users and groups from the DC, although they do not get preceded by the short domain name as in all the examples (they are definitely valid users and groups on the DC though), however doing a wbinfo -i administrator tells me it could not get info for user administrator. Trying 'getent passwd administrator' comes back blank, and 'getent passwd' only lists the local users. The /etc/nsswitch file: ksm-smb# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf group: files winbind group_compat: nis passwd: files winbind passwd_compat: nis shells: files shadow: files winbind hosts: files dns networks: files dns services: files protocols: files rpc: files ethers: files netmasks: files netgroup: files publickey: files bootparams: files automount: files aliases: files ksm-smb# Also, using wbinfo -a / -K also succeeds in authentication, and wbinfo -t comes back as succeeded. Additionally, using the 'net ads' commands 'info' and 'status' comes back with lots of information suggesting it can talk to the AD server ok. All this is the same config as the older server which has had to be replaced, so I am at a loss as to why this appears to work, but fails when it comes to users. If anybody has any ideas, or has seen this before, I would most appreciate any ideas as to why this all seems to have joined perfectly, but doesn't seem able to get all the user information required. Best Regards Daren