Hello everyone! I'm facing a big problem with the samba server I just set up: System: FreeBSD 5.4 Samba ver: 3.0.20 (previuosly 3.0.12) Client(s): Windows XP Professional I configured the server to make use of roaming profiles. I was able to copy local profiles to the server, to login and voila - got my desktop. Also after creating a new user, the new profile gets copied to the server, synchronized and reloaded after next login. So far so good. But when I delete the local copy of the profile (deleting the entire user.dom directory) it doesn't get copied back from the server. Instead Windows waits f?r about 10 minutes until I get a new desktop from some default profile, where I can't change most settings. No update to the server occurs after logout. The same happens when I try to login from a different client. No profile gets loaded. The log reveals no problems or errors. I'm pretty clueless now, since I've read many, many documentations and sample configurations. Below is my smb.conf: [global] display charset = ISO-8859-15 dos charset = 850 unix charset = ISO-8859-15 enable privileges = yes socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User # smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd time server = Yes encrypt passwords = yes veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*} allow hosts = 128.176.52.0/255.255.255.128 192.168.0.0/24 unix extensions = Yes netbios name = PDC server string = Samba Domain Controller printing = CUPS path = /var/spool/samba workgroup = IZKF4 os level = 65 domain master = yes preferred master = yes local master = yes wins support = yes printcap name = CUPS cups options = "raw" use client driver = no security = user domain logons = yes logon script = STARTUP.CMD logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = P: hide unreadable = yes hide dot files = yes log level = 2 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m ldap passwd sync = Yes passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1/ ; SAMBA-LDAP declarations passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1/ # ldap filter = (&(objectclass=sambaSamAccount)(uid=%u)) ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com ldap suffix = dc=mydomain,dc=com ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap user suffix = ou=Users ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers # ldap ssl = start_tls add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u" add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m "%u" ldap delete dn = Yes delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-userdel "%u" add group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p "%g" delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupdel "%g" add user to group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m "%u" "%g" delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x "%u" "%g" set primary group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g "%g" "%u" [W] comment = Data browsable = yes path = /data/drivew create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 public = no writable = yes printable = no write list = @users [netlogon] path = /data/netlogon public = no writeable = no browseable = no [profiles] path=/data/ntprofiles browseable = no writeable = yes guest ok = Yes profile acls = Yes csc policy = disable force user = %U # hide files = /desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/ # write list = %U @"Domain Admins" valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 # default case = lower preserve case = Yes case sensitive = no [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S browseable = No read only = No create mask = 0640 directory mask = 0750 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes create mask = 0600 browseable = No public = yes writable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = root,"@Domain Admins" force group = "Domain Admins" create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [hplj1300] comment = HP Laserjet 1300 printable = yes path = /var/spool/hplaserjet1300 public = no guest ok = no printer admin = "Domain Admins" Additionally I applied the following patch to the XP-Clients: ########### ; Windows XP Professional ; enable windows logon to samba server as domain controller (pdc) with roaming profile ; disable secure channel [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters] "requiresignorseal"=dword:00000000 "signsecurechannel"=dword:00000000 ; disable check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "CompatibleRUPSecurity"=dword:00000001 ########### Does anybody have an idea?