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...What is really funny, is that the PDC does seems to authenticate the user, because I get a different msg if the password is not the right one (it does seem like it's a problem with the groups & PDC) Exemple with id100 (wrong passwd) ---------------- [root@host01:~]smbclient //shomd1/md1 -Uid100 Password: Domain=[ZQC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Any ideas? Cyril Jaouich (Consultant Unix) ------------------------------------------ Support technique des infrastructures Unix ------------------------------------------ T?l: 514-840-3000x5527

...o, ok, when dovecot starts up, it creates the socket files in /usr/local/var/run/dovecot for the auth and a variety of other socket stuff you have going on. It creates these socket files with root ownership. But I have in the config files that dovecot is running as a particular user (in this case uid100 and gid100) to match the global mail systems needs. I use qmail as the delivery agent, and when qmail envokes deliver, I get the following errors in the qmail log files : @400000004c1b18f22ea7a05c delivery 1497: deferral: lda:_Error:_userdb_lookup:_connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb)_...