Hi all, I have been out of the linux / unix loop for a good three years now, and a lot has changed.. I have a windows 2003 server on my home office lan as my domain controller. I would like to know if there is a good how-to that applies to Centos5 to achieve the following: Joining the centos machine to the AD domain (I believe I have done this already) Sharing files from it using the AD user object credentials (don't know how to do this yet, using system-config-samba-1.2.39, it does not show the domain users yet) Allowing login to centos using ssh or NX client (got the NX client working for root user and a local tesuser) using the <DOMAIN>\<windowsusername> credentials Correct configuration of the pam related files etc so that centos automatically creates and populates a user home directory for any first time logins I found the following article: http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0 <http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0&name=News&file=article&sid= 14> &name=News&file=article&sid=14 But I am a bit wary of editing files that I don't fully understand yet. I installed CENTOS5 with just about every option enabled, all the services, so they should all be there already, I just need to configure them without breaking anything. Christopher J Butler CJB Technology Consulting cbutler at optonline.net (631)731-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080121/eed4e183/attachment-0004.html>