Stefan, Tried the xml patch--code looks good. Some comments: 1. Patch installed OK on samba-3.0.14a but not on samba3_release 2. Had to install libxml-devel and libxml2-devel on SLES9 3. Had to configure make to look at xml headers and shared objects 4. Got a segfault in xmlSaveFormatFileEnc; don't know why yet, all arguments look good -- Don Watson