Hi everyone, upon login windows reports: "Windows cannot create profile directory \\fw\profiles\leon.pds. You will be logged on with a local profile only. Changes to the profile will not be propagated to the server." Then it says: "Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make..." looked all over now, tested variations of my smb.conf. One thing looks suspiocious in the log: "smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [profiles] " Clues, tips?? All afternoon and night so far on this one, I'm at 21:28+0800 (Shanghai) /mawi smb.conf: [global] workgroup = EMF netbios name = FW passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . unix password sync = Yes log level = 2 name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast logon script = startup.bat logon path = \\fw\profiles\%U logon drive = H: ; logon home = \\fw\%U\.profile logon home = \\fw\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes ldap suffix = dc=e-mf,dc=net ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers ldap user suffix = ou=EMF,ou=People ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=e-mf,dc=net ldap ssl = no ldap passwd sync = Yes [share] path = /var/share read only = No guest ok = Yes [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/netlogon write list = root, mawi browseable = No [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No guest ok = Yes [profiles] path = /home/samba/profiles read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No log: ==> log.smbd <=[2003/11/13 20:28:41, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1066) smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(uid=leon)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))] [2003/11/13 20:28:41, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(460) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: leon [2003/11/13 20:28:41, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_search_one_group(1597) ldapsam_search_one_group: searching for:[(&(objectClass=sambaGroupMapping)(gidNumber 10001))] [2003/11/13 20:28:41, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(302) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [leon] -> [leon] -> [leon] succeeded [2003/11/13 20:28:42, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1066) smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(sambaSID=S-1-5-21-2137744741-319474916- 1612400144-501)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))] [2003/11/13 20:28:42, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1066) smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(uid=leon)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))] [2003/11/13 20:28:42, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(460) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: leon [2003/11/13 20:28:42, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(302) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [leon] -> [leon] -> [leon] succeeded [2003/11/13 20:28:42, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] ==> log.nmbd <=[2003/11/13 20:28:41, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12 [2003/11/13 20:28:41, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12 ==> log.smbd <=[2003/11/13 20:28:42, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] [2003/11/13 20:28:43, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670) '/home/samba/profiles/' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [ profiles] ==> log.nmbd <=[2003/11/13 20:29:57, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12 [2003/11/13 20:29:57, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12 ==> log.smbd <=[2003/11/13 20:31:02, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1066) smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(sambaSID=S-1-5-21-2137744741-319474916- 1612400144-501)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))] [2003/11/13 20:31:03, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1066) smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(uid=leon)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))] [2003/11/13 20:31:03, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(460) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: leon [2003/11/13 20:31:03, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(302) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [leon] -> [leon] -> [leon] succeeded [2003/11/13 20:31:03, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) srv-animal2 (10.0.1.10) connect to service netlogon initially as user leon (uid=12348, gid=10001) (pid 562) ==> log.nmbd <=[2003/11/13 20:31:02, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12 [2003/11/13 20:31:02, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.1.10: code = 0x12