I installed samba-3.0.28 (PDC+tdbsam) I turned ON the Samba Policy Control "user must logon to change password" by runing below pdbedit command: # pdbedit -P "user must logon to change password" -C 2 account policy "user must logon to change password" description: Force Users to logon for password change (default: 0 ==> off, 2 ==> on) account policy value for user must logon to change password was 0 account policy value for user must logon to change password is now 2 Then I change the password to "pierluigim" with smbpasswd command: smbpasswd pierluigim when login from XP prof as "pierluigim" .. why did not it ask me to change the password .. ? Can you help me? Thanks Andrea