Hi , Before I begin I would like to apologise that this is not really a FR issue but the Samba community has been less than helpful in responding hence hoping in the collective knowledge of this list I can get some pointers. We have a situation where we have 2 AD domains which are running across two complete separate AD domains i.e. no trust. Because of political reasons they cannot establish a trust. I have been able to get multiple instances of winbindd running with separate smb.conf's and joined to the respective AD domains. The problem seems to be ntlm_auth doesnt see that the winbindd privileged pipe and winbindd socket is running in a custom directory. I know what to do in the FR side .. Just wondering anyone has any experience with this kind of setup. Once I can get the ntlm_auth to work I can than finish off the rest of the FR config. My SMB config looks like follows: Winbindd_A server string = Samba Server Domain A hosts allow = 127. log file = /var/log/samba/log-DOMAINA.%m log level = 3 max log size = 50 security = ads encrypt passwords = yes passdb backend = tdbsam load printers = no cups options = raw printcap name = /dev/null allow trusted domains = yes interfaces=172.21.8.250 bind interfaces only = yes WORKGROUP=DOMAINA-NETWORKS REALM=DOMAINA-networks.com pid directory = /var/run/samba/DOMAINA-networks lock directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks private dir = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks winbindd socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks winbindd privileged socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks/winbindd_privileged smb passwd file = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks state directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks cache directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks usershare path = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks ntp signd socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINA-networks winbindd_B server string = Samba Server Domain B hosts allow = 127. log file = /var/log/samba/log-DOMAINB.%m log level = 3 max log size = 50 security = ads encrypt passwords = yes passdb backend = tdbsam load printers = no cups options = raw printcap name = /dev/null allow trusted domains = yes interfaces=172.21.8.250 bind interfaces only = yes WORKGROUP=DOMAINB-NETWORKS REALM=DOMAINB-networks.com pid directory = /var/run/samba/DOMAINB-networks lock directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks private dir = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks winbindd socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks winbindd privileged socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks/winbindd_privileged smb passwd file = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks state directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks cache directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks usershare path = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks ntp signd socket directory = /var/cache/samba/DOMAINB-networks Any pointers would be extremely appreciated..