On versions prior to FC5 I've been able to use authconfig to set up smb authentication against a windows domain controller but leave all account setup local so I could add users with the adduser command but did not have to deal with passwords. The GUI tool from the System/Administration/Authentication menu goes through the same motions in FC5 but it doesn't appear to be contacting the domain controller. Did I miss something? The right things seem to be in /etc/pam_smb.conf and /etc/pam.d/system-auth and samba access is working with the same server configured as the password server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx