oh maaan, that's really sad: i know what the stuff in subauth.h is all about, aaaaagh! it is incredibly similar to the MSRPC "NETLOGON" stuff that's implemented in cli_nt_login_interactive, cli_nt_login_network and cli_nt_login_generic in rpc_client/cli_login.c joy. l. -- -- <a href="http://lkcl.net">http://lkcl.net</a> --