Dear Susistas... Got following problem with Windows XP <-> Samba connections: Here the error message (from Eventlog). """ Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1526 Date: 24.11.2005 Time: 08:55:12 User: S-1-5-21-313736740-3914637371-1251359848-2000 Computer: WS08 Description: Windows did not load your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Windows did not load your profile because a server copy of the profile folder already exists that does not have the correct security. Either the current user or the Administrator's group must be the owner of the folder. Contact your network administrator. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. """ I've been fooling around with this for several months now and cannot seam to find out what the problem is.... Anybody know anything bout this? Jerry P.S. Here what I think are the relevant information for debuging: from /etc/samba/smb.conf "" [global] workgroup = BRAUN netbios name = SERVER server string = Braun Attourneys Server interfaces = eth1 lo bind interfaces only = Yes encrypt passwords = yes update encrypted = Yes map to guest = Bad User passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix password sync = Yes time server = Yes socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY printcap name = CUPS domain admin group = westrick root add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ logon script = logon.cmd logon path = \\%N\%U\.ntprofile logon drive = H: domain logons = yes os level = 65 preferred master = yes domain master = yes wins support = Yes admin users = westrick root nt acl support = No printing = cups veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ security = user local master = yes ;; ldap server = 127.0.0.1 [netlogon] comment = Logon Directory path = /home/samba/netlogon admin users = root westrick write list = westrick root guest ok = yes browseable = no printable = no [profiles] comment = Contains the Profiles path = /home/samba/profiles read only = No browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no """ The file permisions: ls -la /home/thomas drwx--x--- 17 tk users 704 Nov 18 15:03 .ntprofile ls -la /home/thomas/.ntprofile total 4349 drwx--x--- 17 tk users 704 Nov 18 15:03 . drwxr-xr-x 42 tk users 2240 Jan 9 09:53 .. -rw-r----- 1 tk users 438577 May 27 2005 .fonts.cache-1 drwxr-x--- 21 tk users 896 Oct 28 11:22 .gimp-2.2 -rw-r----- 1 tk users 0 Jun 1 2005 .gtk-bookmarks drwxr-x--- 3 tk users 72 Jun 1 2005 .thumbnails drwxr-x--- 17 tk users 504 Nov 8 07:54 Anwendungsdaten drwxr-x--- 3 tk users 80 Dec 19 2003 Application Data drwxr-x--- 2 tk users 2256 Nov 18 15:03 Cookies drwxr-x--- 4 tk users 1976 Nov 18 15:03 Desktop drwxr-x--- 2 tk users 48 Dec 17 2003 Druckumgebung drwxr-x--- 8 tk users 568 Sep 28 10:16 Eigene Dateien drwxr-x--- 4 tk users 200 Mar 30 2005 Favoriten -rw-r----- 1 tk users 3932160 Nov 18 15:02 NTUSER.DAT -rw-r----- 1 tk users 302 Nov 18 15:03 NTUSER.INI drwxr-x--- 18 tk users 968 Oct 27 18:24 Netzwerkumgebung drwxr-x--- 2 tk users 42424 Nov 18 15:03 Recent drwxr-x--- 2 tk users 280 Mar 30 2005 SendTo drwxr-x--- 3 tk users 112 Sep 28 10:16 Startmen? drwxr-x--- 6 tk users 176 Mar 30 2005 UserData drwxr-x--- 2 tk users 432 Mar 30 2005 Vorlagen -rw-r----- 1 tk users 366 Dec 1 2003 convert.log -rw-r----- 1 tk users 8477 Mar 10 2005 gsview32.ini -rw-r----- 1 tk users 1024 Nov 18 15:02 ntuser.dat.LOG