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...something is being mangled when windows2000 sends a SID to samba? Just on a whim, I tried converting the SIDs into hexadecimal, and things make more sense: my machine sid (in hex) is 1-5-15-89d8a8aa-83842412-62efdc31 the weird sid reported in the log file is 1-5-15000000-aaa8d889-12248483-31dcef62-acd80100 So is this a byte ordering problem? I don't know enough about the samba internals to try and fix this myself, but it doesn't sound like it should be too hard. I still don't understand the RID at the end - the uid of the user I tried to add to the ACL was 566, but maybe other stuff is...