what we will have is 10 servers. 3 at corporate and 7 remote. All will have smeserver 7.2. what we need is to be able to transfer user names, passwords and permissions to all servers. The end user needs to be able to change his/her password one day (probably on a dedicated server) and have it propagate to the remote servers by start of work the next day. The hitch is not all of the servers will be upgraded only a select few. what i was thinking is, is there a way to configure a dedicated machine that the users could use "user-password" and a program that would let you select the ip address of the servers that you want the information sent to and someway to schedule the transfer of the proper files to update the remote servers. i don't know if this is possible or not. It is not an active directory solution but a transfer of the required data that is needed to update select remote servers with the proper user nformation.