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Hi Rowland, Thanks for your advice. I discussed this with my manager and we will plan to upgrade the old system. But this will not be finished with short time. After reading many old emails in this forum, I made some changes in our Samba settings. First, we turned on winbind and added all necessary packages and setup for winbind. Finally, we can login with the short format, such as YALE\zs24.

On Tue, 7 May 2024 22:19:38 +0000 "Sun, Zhongdong" <zhongdong.sun at yale.edu> wrote: > Hi Rowland, > > You are right. We are running some old software here, such as NIS. > All these started in 20 years ago when I joined the group and we had > about 20-30 workstations running Linux. NIS was chosen at that time > to manage user accounts. Some users were not