Hello! The thing is, windows2000 tries to copy the user profiles from c:\some\path\ to c:\someother\path.profile Somehow I created the root account, and that one works fine. So Samba works fine to an certain point. Klaus Zahradnik Here is my smb.conf: # Global parameters [global] netbios name = LINUXBOX workgroup = gopublic os level = 64 prefered master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes security = user domain logons = yes # domain server = LINUXBOX logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u.pds logon home = \\%N\%U logon drive = x: encrypt passwords = Yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd logfile = /var/log/samba/log.%m update encrypted = Yes username map = /etc/samba/user.map socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY character set = ISO8859-15 wins support = Yes preload = global homes printers guest account = nobody printing = cups veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ [netlogon] path = /etc/samba/netlogon writeable = no # writelist = ntadmin locking = no [profiles] path = /export/smb/ntprofile writeable = yes # next line is a great way to secure the profiles force user = %U # next line allows administrator to access all profiles # valid users = %U administrator create mode = 0600 directory mode = 0700 browseable = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0640 directory mask = 0750 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes use client driver = Yes browseable = No