You can set the type of Profile by using the control Panal system application to set the type to local. Anyway this is probably not the main intention in handling profiles: Aim: 1. Exclude some files like tmp or temporary internet file 2. Include desktop or personal Therefore you can use (to exclude) the poledit: double click on the user in poledit and as far as I remember under "system" (check it out) you will find the option to exclude files from roaming. This works well in the combination of NT 4.0 Server and w2k, by creating a group under poledit to apply the specific options to my users. As far as I figured out, groups under poledit don't work with samba (otherwise give me a hint). So first create users you want to be admins in poledit and then manipulate the default user with excluding "tmp" files from being roaming. In General i think the best is to exclude all type of tmp files and then map a drive for the personal files and bookmarks and set a quota in poledit for the rest (in poledit). Refering to samba you will have the problem of not being able to apply group options in poledit to the users (my experience). Refering to NT 4.0 Server and w2k I found no general solution for creating a default users profile by manipulating the registry and setting personal (files) to a mapped drive to apply this settings to all users. So I changed the registry ( current user/.../windows/shell folders) to be a mapped drive (r) for personal folders and made a logon script like "net use r: \\%logonserver%\home\%username%" To apply this you have to copy the Test User profile to the netlogon share. and rename it to default. Now delete as admin all local profiles and roaming profiles on the server except "admin" and "all users" (and "default user") and the changes will be there at next login for the other users. Wolfgang