Hi all, I have an xp machine called fbath4 that I would like to join the domain on my samba 2.2.3 PDC. I created the machine account with useradd -g machines -d /dev/null -c "New computer" -s /bin/false fbath4$ then passwd -l fbath4$ then smbpasswd -a -m fbath4 I verified the entries exist in /etc/passwd & /etc/samba/smbpasswd I tried the "on the fly" technique from the howto also and it didn't work. When I try to join a domain I get "Windows cannot find an account for your computer on the fb domain." Then it asks for a username I put mine and I get Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred. "Winodws cannot find the network path. Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off... Is there an issue between XP and samba? Any help would be appericiated. John --