I would strongly suggest using YAST. To do so, you will need to: 1) Be sure the Linux box is using the same network time server as the AD you want to join. I think Yast even offers to set this up in the place where you join the AD. Is is the same as the usual place in yast where you set the time server. This must happen because AD uses time to determine how long some tickets (or whatever it calls them) are valid. So getting the times in sync is a requirement, not an option. 2) The login and password on the AD controller that is needed to let a machine join the AD. Where I work this was needed as they do not let just any machine do this. I had to get this from the IT guys. The you can log in as a AD user and get a home. What is not done via Yast is any mounting of directories from the AD. The user gets a home on the Linux box. All this is an exercise left to the user. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This work out well, however the 'home' directory is mounted. Actually, I was hoping that the 'home' dir for the user who authenticated to the AD would have their 'home dir' created. (Wishful thinking?) Log in as a user, get a prompt for the password, authentication is successful but this error occurs; No directory /home/AD-DOMAIN/username! Logging in with home = "/" Any ideas on how to fix this? Many thanks, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org