Hi,
Well thanks everyone -snort- for all the help. I've figured it all out.
no-one else runs thsi particular type of setup? <shrug> ? possibly you are the first, unique and pioneer path treader - you should be proud that its all working - i've just had a quick glance at your sqls.net howto and it looks interesting. I'm not doing of that stuff right now - but after a quick scan it certainly looks like something i might want to use. regarding the ntlm_auth issue - sorry that i did not see that directly but a quick list scan should point out a few replies i've given in the past! the /var/cache/samba/winbind_priviledged directory must be owned by radiusd (or whoover the daemon is run as). be aware!! that a samba update can guarantee these permissions are reset to wrong values! alan