Fabio, Thanks for ur imm response. #getent passwd | grep selvara SE\selvara:x:10022:10001:selvara:/home/SE/selvara:/bin/false # id SE\\selvara id: invalid user name: "SE\selvara" Please help me out. Jasmine -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Samba-ADS-problem-t1610406.html#a4453126 Sent from the Samba - General forum at Nabble.com.