I've different permission for one of the user's profile. drwxr-xr-x 13 user3 502 1024 May 20 16:20 user3 drwx------ 13 user1 500 1024 May 20 16:23 user1 drwx------ 13 user2 501 1024 May 20 16:37 user2 Can anyone explain why is this so? If not, can point me to the right documentation on the permission of the users' profiles? One more thing, I didn't create all these directories. It was created by Samba when the user logs in for the first time. It is in /opt/samba/profiles, with profiles directory permission set to 1757 (read from samba.idealx.org).