Greetz all, I am setting up a comain controller for a windows 2000 network and I think I have everything squared away. The problem that I am having right now is that all of the documentation/howtos that I have thusfar seen assume that a user wishes to implement roaming profiles in Samba. We want to preserve local profiles (local on the client.) I had seen a posting suggesting to set the local path for the profiles with the logon path option; it seems to almost work but when I try to log in with a user in the samba domain, they are met with errors relating that they are recieving a temporary profile and changes made to it will not be saved. The bottom of the event error gives the reason "access denied". I notice that the default, if the logon path option is not used, is to set a profile up in the unix user's home directory. Below is included my running smb.conf. (Forgive the lengthy inclusion.) I set logon path = C:\Documents and Settings\%U hoping that it would create the profile using the name of the user logging in as their login name. Here is the error recieved at login, when logging in as Samba user "test": ====================================================================Windows cannot create profile directory C:\Documents and Settings\test.pds. You will be logged on with a local profile only. Changes to the profile will not be propogated to the server. Contact your network administrator. Detail - Access is denied. ==================================================================== When the user is logged in and given thier temporary profile (C:\Documents and Settings\TEMP), this is seen in the machine error log in Samba: ===============================================================[2003/04/11 10:17:08, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(251) darren-laptop (172.16.10.2) couldn't find service test [2003/04/11 10:17:08, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(251) darren-laptop (172.16.10.2) couldn't find service test =============================================================== What does that mean? It is trying to find a share at \\server\test? And how can I make the local profiles work ? TIA, DS ===============================================================Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[netlogon]" Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] coding system client code page = 850 code page directory = /usr/share/samba/codepages workgroup = PGPCORP netbios name = PGPPROXY netbios aliases netbios scope server string = Samba Server interfaces bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = Yes password server smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentic ation*tokens*updated*successfully* passwd chat debug = No username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No admin log = No log level = 0 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = Yes max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt status support = Yes announce version = 4.9 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 16644 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 name cache timeout = 660 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 stat cache size = 50 use mmap = Yes total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap disable spoolss = No enumports command addprinter command deleteprinter command show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map strip dot = No mangling method = hash character set mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group domain guest group machine password timeout = 604800 add user script delete user script logon script logon path = C:\Documents and Settings\%U logon drive logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 36 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = Yes local master = Yes domain master = Yes browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server wins support = Yes wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes lock spin count = 3 lock spin time = 10 oplock break wait time = 0 add share command change share command delete share command config file preload lock dir = /var/cache/samba pid directory = /var/run/samba utmp directory wtmp directory utmp = No default service message command dfree command valid chars remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = auto.home time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment panic action hide local users = No winbind uid winbind gid template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind use default domain = No comment path alternate permissions = No username guest account = nobody invalid users = bin daemon adm lp sync shutdown halt mail news uucp operator games gopher ftp vcsa mailnull rpm ntp rpc xfs rpcuser nfsnobody nscd ident radvd apache squid pcap mysql sshd valid users admin users read list write list printer admin force user force group read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 force unknown acl user = 00 inherit permissions = No inherit acls = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = 172.16.10. 127. hosts deny status = Yes nt acl support = Yes profile acls = No block size = 1024 max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = lprng print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command lpresume command queuepause command queueresume command printer name use client driver = No default devmode = No printer driver printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes csc policy = manual fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy include exec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No root postexec available = Yes volume fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend magic script magic output delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object vfs options [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon browseable = No share modes = No =============================================================== -- Darren Spruell Sento I.S. Department darren_spruell@sento.com