Hi, Is there any way of configuring samba v2 to authenticate user passwords with NIS instead of using the smbpasswd file? Cheers Shaun McCullagh IT Support Officer Email: sm at sys.uea.ac.uk School of Information Systems., Tel +44 1603 592307 University of East Anglia, FAX +44 1603 507720 Norwich England NR4 7TJ All views expressed are my own.