Samba Version 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 tbdsam back end. I discovered a couple of accounts we created before the Domain was configured was was an account named "administrator" intended to be the Smaba Administrator account. In order to change the domain ai ran this command # pdbedit -I "DOMAINNAME" -U username it worked on a number of accounts when I tried it on administrator I get the # pdbedit -I "DOMAINNAME" -u administrator Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Unable to modify entry! # pdbedit -v -u administrator gives the following output Unix username: administrator NT username: Account Flags: [U ] User SID: S-1-5-21-1504512832-3249319461-1142831928-500 Primary Group SID: S-1-5-21-1504512832-3249319461-1142831928-513 Full Name: Samba Administrator,,, Home Directory: \\hamlet\administrator HomeDir Drive: U Logon Script: Profile Path: deleted for privacy Domain: HAMLET Account desc: Workstations: Munged dial: Logon time: 0 Logoff time: never Kickoff time: never Password last set: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:29:27 CST Password can change: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:29:27 CST Password must change: never Last bad password : 0 Bad password count : 0 Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I don't see anything here that looks out of place but I don't know what it all means. -- rob steinmetz Signature