When I restarted winbind, I get an success restart but I get this and is shown in /var/log/samba/log.winbindd [2005/07/01 21:18:16, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(864) winbindd version 3.0.14a-Ubuntu started. Copyright The Samba Team 2000-2004 [2005/07/01 21:18:16, 0] lib/util_sock.c:create_pipe_sock(1206) invalid permissions on socket directory /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged open_winbind_socket: Success I changed the permission of this directory under /var/run/samba/ drwxrwxrwx 2 proxy proxy 4096 2005-07-01 15:40 winbindd_privileged event this, i get the same error.. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2005-07-01 15:40 winbindd_privileged need help thnx,