Hello, According to a mail i found, i installed pam_mount and did everything to get samba-authentication back again and automated mounting of samba-shares on login (automount). This works well, but i can just login once. If i relogin, i just get a black screen instead of the splashscreen. My logs are not very helpful, all they tell is that gconfd stopped. What wonders me even more, is the output of ps -ef: root 4135 2077 0 19:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 4164 4135 0 19:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 16666 4164 8 20:15 tty7 00:00:02 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -audit 0 -auth gdm 16677 4164 4 20:15 ? 00:00:00 [gdmgreeter] <defunct> killing then the 1st line brings me back to login-screen, and after login all works fine again, until i logout and try to login again. Whats wrong here?? Thanks for your help. Roger