hi all, i installed fc1 (..not without pain, but it works fine now...) with Samba 3.0 as PDC. 1) The PDC is running quite well and stable 2) I can authentificate without any problem with WINDOWS-CLIENTS 3) The netlogon works even fine with a nice login-script 4) Printing works even with a little bit stranger printers as the HP PSC750 BUT: how to xxx do i authentificate with a Linux-Client?? I did some changes in the nsswitch.conf, inserted a few lines into smb.conf, checked the samba.conf from pam.d....and it stills does not work....i have a '-' as separator. so i tried DOMAIN-user, DOMAIN/user, DOMAIN\user, domain-user, domain/user and domain\user....nothing at all worked.. i cut of pieces from my smb.conf, the nsswitch.conf and samba.conf from pam.d. Thanks for any help, so i can authentificate against my samba 3.0 pdc. Btw, does anybody now perhaps a kind of login-script to mount the samba-directories directly in my linux-client, or do i have to mount them via the fstab? btw: the net join -s Servername -U root works fine. get the message 'joined domain gwch' also on linux clients. cheers & thx Roger smb.conf -------- # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = gwch # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = gwch.net (pdc) winbind separator = - idmap uid = 500-20000 idmap gid = 500-20000 winbind cache time = 10 passwords are encrypted!! nsswitch.conf ------------- passwd: files winbind shadow: files group: files winbind pam.d/samba.conf ---------------- #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth