Fellow samba folk, Please disregard my earlier message. I have solved the problem, and it appears to have been a combination of things. First, somehow (I have no idea how), the Samba package must have gotten corrupted during installation. I cleaned up the mess, reinstalled, and had much better results. Second issue: I followed the instructions at this link, Section 2.6, VERY carefully, to get the system to be just a simple member server. I'll worry about ADS later. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#fast-memberserver-shares That helped more than anything else. In particular, I was unaware (until I read the above) that Samba should not have been started until it was joined to the domain. I was under the impression it had to be started BEFORE it could join up. Everything's working fine. Thanks for reading, at least. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "Quid Malmborg in Plano..."