So I'm setting up my freeRADIUS server to use Active Directory. I am closely mirror my existing installation. However, I receive this error message while running /usr/sbin/freeradius -X -A . (Which is one I did not encounter last time) (I have trimmed it to what I hope is the pertinent section) Exec-Program output: winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly. (0xc0000022) Exec-Program-Wait: plaintext: winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly. (0xc0000022) Exec-Program: returned: 1 Doing some reading (always a good thing) http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about23951.html&highlight= (from a squid mailing list) I found that the windbindd_privileged directory was drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2006-02-28 18:10 winbindd_privileged But it was also strong cautioned that you shouldn't change this, but to add the freeRADIUS to the group ownership of this directory. (I made the group of the directory freerad) Is this a recent change of Samba? I didn't have to do this a few months ago. More importantly, did I do something wrong? Or is this normal, and I just did notate that I did this before. Thanks Mike