I'm setting up roaming profiles (Samba 3, Win2K). The profile is stored in a subdirectory of the user's home directory, .profile. Chapter 24 of the (excellent) Samba Howto Collection discusses changing the registry entries (....\user shell folders) to point to a network location to avoid downloading all the profile files at every login and logout. I have replaced the %USERPROFILE% there with: %LOGONSERVER%\%USERNAME%\.profile ...in other words, the precise location of the roaming profile, so in fact no copying at all should be needed. This seems to work, but is there any danger I should be aware of in setting 'user shell folders' to the location of the roaming profile? Thanks, Keith