Update: - I tried installing cygserver as a service but problem persists. - Also tried verifying the user in the domain with net user. While getent fails to find my user, net user finds it with no issues. - Tried installing and configuring krb5-workstation but it didn’t help as well. Will appreciate any other leads to check... Thanks -----Original Message----- >> Why do I need cygserver? > You don't exactly NEED cygserver. But if you have 1. Domain (or even > multi-domain) environment. > 2. and/or remote/slow/flaky connection to the domain server. > cygserver may provide a smoother experience as it caches some > information related to names resolution. Running cygserver will also cache info and speed up processing if you run many: - service daemons under Cygwin, especially cron jobs or ssh sessions - concurrent processes, especially deeply nested, forked, or background (some cron jobs background subprocesses *heavily* to reduce run time) - XSI IPC message queues - semaphores - shared memory segments otherwise that has to be managed by either the process itself or the root parent process, possibly in parallel threads. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. ТÒÐÐ¥&ö&ÆVÒ&W÷'G3¢‡GG¢òö7–wv–âæ6öÒ÷&ö&ÆV×2æ‡FÖÀФd¢‡GG¢òö7–wv–âæ6öÒöfðФFö7VÖVçFF–ö㢇GG¢òö7–wv–âæ6öÒöFö72æ‡FÖÀÐ¥Vç7V'67&–&R–æfó¢‡GG¢òö7–wv–âæ6öÒöÖÂò7Vç7V'67&–&R×6–×ÆPРÐ