Tim, This is something of the dreaded, "me to", but there isn't a good clean authentication client for Novell's eDirectory. :-( In response to Keith's reply, Netware 6 isn't really an option for an existing NDS network. An upgrade to Netware 6 is non-trivial (requires a lot of work and more hardware) and still doesn't really allow for easy Linux authentication to NDS -- it just allows for file access once you have authentication (except for the web client which should work fine regardless of the client without separate authentication). That said, our best bet is to get secure LDAP working on NDS. LDAP is running where I work, but secure LDAP is not yet configured right, so I haven't been able to get the authentication working. The things to look for are the LDAP PAM module and references to it. If LDAP and SSL are working on your NDS Tree, you should be able to get that working. As far as file access, waiting for Native File Access in Netware 6 is probably our only hope. I'll be very interested in any progress you make and in any other responses from people on the list who have been successful with Novell/Linux integration. Gerry -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org