I wrote: ------------------ Beginning of old message -------------- We have a small network where roaming profiles are stored on a Samba 2.0.5a server. (Samba is a member of the domain, not the domain controller.) When one tries to log on to a machine running Windows 2000 Professional RC2, reading the profile fails, with error messages like: "Windows cannot copy file \\filserver\profiles\ottog2\profile\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ to location D:\Documents and Settings\ottog2\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\. Contact your network administrator. DETAIL - Access is denied." -------------------- End of old message ------------------ It turns out that the directory ...\Internet Explorer\ was for some reason created with zero permissions in the Unix file system. (Directories higher up in the structure were OK.) The following settings for the profiles share seems to have solved the problem: force create mode = 0600 force directory mode = 0700 Otto Giesenfeld