Thanks for the hint but it didn't do the trick. I added the line password server = 192.168.0.254 to the smb.conf, but when I try to start the samba server I get the following error message in the /var/samba/smbd.log [2005/06/11 18:43:24, 1] libads/ldap.c:ads_connect(251) Failed to get ldap server info