Thank you very much, Anders and Carl, for your replies. Both answers confirm what I assumed to be the case. It appears that roaming profiles depend on two condition that must be met: 1. The participating machines must run the same version of the operating system. 2. The participating machines must have the same software with the same software version installed; and preferably use the same windows manager. I am a technical person, not a diplomat, so I wanted to have another opinion before I say to the users "It can;t be done this way". Thanks again Peter -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com