I have a really dumb question; I am hoping maybe David Trask or some other kind soul can help me: I have a lab set up with Edubuntu workstations and a Ubuntu server. We use SMBLDAP to authenticate student logins on the server. The guy who helped me set it up sent me some directions; the first thing it tells me to do is mv /home/administrator /administrator and then usermod -d /administrator. We make "admin" a local login and administrator a server login. When I do this, I can no longer run anything, particularly the users & groups GUI or the Synaptic Package Manager. My question is, is there a way to make these things run without the existence of the /home/administrator directory? Any other ideas for ways to make these Edubuntu workstation logins authenticate on teh server? Any ideas for speeding up the computers that authenticate really slowly? I need to set up 2 workstations that puked on me; I also have a couple of workstations that take 3+ minutes to log a student in. The other workstations log people in in under 30 sec's. Thanks for any ideas you can share. Best kari -- *-*-*-*-*-* <a href="http://blog.karimatthews.com">blog.karimatthews.com</a>