Good day, Iam very new to LDAP + SAMBA and I have a problem. I have installed LDAP server and its working fine because i can log in using OpenXchange. Now i have setup another machine to be a PDC, i tried to join the domain but it failed saying authentication problem. Find attached configuration files i have edited in trying to have this setup work. slapd.conf - The LDAP conf file on the LDAP+Openxchange Server smb.conf - the SAMBA conf file on the SAMBA server ldap.conf - the LDAP client conf file on the SAMBa server. These are the only files i have edited when i followed a How-to online, did i miss out any. My question are: 1. In samba server conf the way i have specified authentication to the LDAP server what am i missing out for it not to work? 2. Should i add users on the samba server again as on the LDAP server. Especially the administrator account used to join machines on the domain how can i confirm that i can loggon from the Samba machine, what command line command can i use to test connection to the LDAP server 3. Now in an event that users are authenticated by the LDAP how can i create shares on the SAMBA server if all the LDAP accounts are on another machine, OpenxChange server. I want all the shares to be on the SAMBA server using LDAP accounts. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Kind regards Teddy L. ________________________________________________ Message sent using Parliament Mail 2.7.2