Good news - we've just converted the school over from an NT PDC to a gnu linux/samba one and things are almost working perfectly. We have about 30 acorn clients which continue to work perfectly, and similarly about 80 nt4 workstation clients which work fine (but with an unpleasant bodge I'll mention later) and about 30 W2K clients which almost always work perfectly. All the windows clients are working with policies and mandatory roaming profiles, and astonishingly, they seem to work :) Sometimes, however, when we log in at one of the W2K machines it will complain that it cannot connect to the shares on the server, and starts up with a local default profile instead. If we log out and try again it works fine. The problem is not related to server or network load - it can happen when the network and server are idle but for the W2K login. Has anybody come across this? Any solutions, or clues for some tests to do? Now for the unpleasant bodge :) The only way we've been able to con2prt to work for setting up the default printer for the machine, is to add users to the group set up for domain admins (domain admin group in smb.conf). A similar problem arises with connecting to shares - we can't, unless the user is in the domain admin group. These problems occur within the context of the logon script. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers -- Phil Driscoll