>P.S. Again, if you want to distribute user, group, host, services >and other info across your Samba servers, which are UNIX servers, >you want to setup NIS. Or LDAP. I think you gain alot of ancillary benefits by choosing LDAP over NIS. I wrote a LDAP->NIS replicator for supporting old UNIXs that don't understand LDAP. http://ldapconsole.sourceforge.net