On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Austad, Jay wrote: > Ok, I cannot make Samba authenticate against a win2k domain no matter > what I do. When I try to join the domain using smbpasswd -j DOMAIN, I > just get an error that says "failed session request, Unable to join > domain DOMAIN". I assume I have to join the domain before it will > authenticate against the DC's right? Because right now when trying to > connect to a share, I get a failed user/pass error. Yeah, you probably do have to join the domain. Did you do smbpasswd -U <username> to make sure it was trying to authenticate as the remote user? If you do smbclient '\\server\share' -U <blah>, it may work, too. > Can I make it use LDAP to authenticate against our LDAP servers? Haven't tried that one yet.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500