Hello, now I still have a problem with my Samba installation. Userprofiles don't work under W2K SP4. They work fine with Windows NT 4. When loggin on for the first time the user profile directory is created. After loggin off however no data is written to the profile directory on the Samba PDC. My smb.conf looks like this: =====> # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) # Date: 2003/07/22 12:24:13 # Global parameters [global] debug level = 4 unix charset = ISO-8859-15 workgroup = DVS server string = %h server (Samba %v) obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam, guest passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 logon path = \\samba\profiles\%u logon drive = h: logon home = \\samba\%u domain logons = Yes os level = 64 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 invalid users = root admin users = administrator [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [netlogon] path = /var/exports/data/netlogon write list = domainadmins [profiles] path = /var/exports/data/profiles read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 profile acls = yes [gl] path = /var/exports/data/gl valid users = @gl, @domainadmins force group = @gl read only = No create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 [ma] path = /var/exports/data/ma valid users = @ma, @domainadmins force group = @ma read only = No create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 <==== the profile directory looks like this: drwxrwxrwx 2 root domainusers 4096 Jul 22 13:35 profiles (777 permissions are for testing, they will become 770 again) When logging on there ist the following activity in the logs (log.pc1): =====> [2003/07/22 14:11:41, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_netsec_process(1351) failed to decode PDU [2003/07/22 14:11:41, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:process_request_pdu(605) process_request_pdu: failed to do schannel processing. [2003/07/22 14:11:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) pc1 (192.168.0.1) connect to service netlogon initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 823) [2003/07/22 14:11:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) pc1 (192.168.0.1) connect to service test initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 823) [2003/07/22 14:11:43, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) pc1 (192.168.0.1) connect to service test initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 823) <==== When logging off there is just this: [2003/07/22 14:13:50, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(873) pc1 (192.168.0.1) closed connection to service test If I log on at a Windows NT 4 Workstation the log is different (log.heu2): ======> [2003/07/22 14:17:19, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) heu2 (192.168.0.2) connect to service profiles initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 846) [2003/07/22 14:17:20, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) heu2 (192.168.0.2) connect to service netlogon initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 846) [2003/07/22 14:17:20, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(692) heu2 (192.168.0.2) connect to service test initially as user test (uid=1006, gid=1006) (pid 846) [2003/07/22 14:17:20, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(1831) call_nt_transact_ioctl(0x90028): Currently not implemented. <===== In the logs I can see that W2K SP4 doesn't connect to the profiles share instead there are some errors in the log (failed to do schannel processing, failed to decode PDU). Logging off from the W2K workstation takes about 1 1/2 minutes. W2K writes the following to the eventlog (german log): =====> Die Registrierungsdatei konnte nicht entfernt werden. Ihre Einstellungen werden nicht repliziert, falls Sie ein servergspeichertes Profil haben. Wenden Sie sich an den Administrator. DETAIL - Zugriff verweigert , Buildnummer ((2195)). <==== Samba is only logging that the connection to home share is closed: -- manfred heubach edv und neue medien Hindenburgstr. 47 D-73728 Esslingen Tel. +49 711 9315824 Fax +49 711 9315825 www.heubach-edv.de Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation f?r Unternehmen