Hi again, It seems that nscd's cache was supporting my claims. Of course it was only for a short period. Here are a few corrections on what I'm experiencing: On /etc/nsswitch.conf there is a line containing 'group: files ldap'. smb does NOT start correctly with this setting. If I remove the ldap entry from that specific line, smb binds itself to the required ports but, when someone tries to access the specif share, an error "the group name could not be found" appears. ( I'm using LDAP client as authentication source ) I'm assuming there is a problem with samba-3.2.x and the ldap/pam configuration on my machine. I was able to test it on another openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 on the network and, the behavior is the same. For now, I'm disabling samba-server :( as I need to authenticate myself... Before I write a BUG report on openSUSE Bugzilla: - Can anyone corroborate this "so mentioned" bug of samba-3.2.x not starting with an openldap authentication scheme ? - Can anyone claim success on installing a samba server along with openldap authentication ? I also find it strange that I'm the only one experiencing this problem. It is not a usual setup but, I thinks it is also not so rare... Thanks again for your help, -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org