I have a deployement of samba 3.2.5, with MIT KRB5.1.6.3 and authentication from Win2k3 AD server. I am able to access public shares as well as restricted shares such as an 'Engineering' share when I put my user in the correct AD group. However, I am completely unable to access my "Home" share. Getent passwd, works (grepped for my username) marguin:x:502:502::/home/marguin:/bin/bash marguin:*:20045:20000:Matthew Arguin:/fileshare/private/marguin:/bin/bash Getent group, works finance:*:20001:user1,user2,marguin allsmbusers:*:20012:marguin,all the other group members My dir drwxrwxrwx 7 marguin allsmbusers 4096 Dec 3 19:16 marguin And that marguin for the owner, corresponds to 20045, the AD user, not the local user. Testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf only complains about the '+' that I use as the delimiter [global] workgroup = DOMAIN realm = DOMAIN.NET server string = %h Samba Server Version %v netbios name = FS log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log log level =10 security = ADS use kerberos keytab = true #client use spnego = yes password server = <IP of AD server> encrypt passwords = yes local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no dns proxy = no idmap uid = 20000-40000 idmap gid = 20000-40000 template homedir = /fileshare/private/%U template shell = /bin/bash #template primary group = "Domain Users" winbind use default domain = Yes winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind separator = + winbind cache time = 300 # no is default winbind nested groups = Yes wins server = <ip of WINS server> #============================ Share Definitions =============================[homes] comment = Home Directory for %u path = /fileshare/private/%u browseable = no writable = yes valid users = @%D+%u # invalid users = temporarily commented out for troubleshooting Looking for any thoughts