Morning I have been trying to get samba sitting in our active directory. The main idea is to eventually sit our users home directorys on samba servers and leave the active directory doing the authentication, policies bit. I've set up a test system using mandrake 8.2 and the latest samba rpm that comes with it. I used the instructions here http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html I've successfully joined (I think) the samba server to the active directory and on the login screen I can see a full list of all the active directory users but cannot authenticate with any of them. I tried creating a home dir for one of AD users on the samba server but couldn't change ownership to this user and couldn't mount the home dir from a windows machine. Has anyone come across this before and/or could offer some suggestions on what to try next. TIA matt