Hi there, after working without any rules or templates, I would create some rules to merge my autoyast profile for different workstations. My Profile directory is: '/pub/suse/9.1/autoyast/' ... I starts the autoyast routine on the commandline without a speficy profile (Autoyast=nfs://10.xxx.xxx.62/pub/suse/9.1/autoyast/) my rules.xml is in '/pub/suse/9.1/autoyast/rules/rules.xml' and contains following lines: <CTYPE autoinstall SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/rules.dtd"> <autoinstall xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config ="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <rules config:type="list"> <rule> <mac> <match>00B0D0E25C86</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </mac> <result> <profile>km2.xml</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue> </result> </rule> </rules> </autoinstall> the needed profile is in '/pub/suse/9.1/autoyast/' and is should be accessable to any user! Before AutoYast starts parsing my Controlfile, it receive the rules.xml and want to receive my controlfile to merge it. There's my problem, at this stage autoyast tells me, it couldn't find my profile and i should enter the fullpath to the controlfile. But I'm sure, the controlfile is in '/pub/suse/9.1/autoyast/' with filename "km2.xml" if I symlink my HexIP to my controlfile it works fine! Any Solutions? Best regards Kai Moeller