Hi I use 2 samba servers (3.0.2rc1). One as PDC the other as BDC. Both are using ldap (sambaSamAccount) as backend. If I set profile path only in smb.conf every user gets an error message when loading a profile: Wrong path syntax. The clients did a connection to the server. If I set sambaProfilePath Attribute to the same value as profile path in smb.conf for a user this user is able to log in and load the profile most times. Most times it work bit not everytime. Path and settings for the profile share are still the same. I have this problem since 3.0.0 with different servers at different locations. Maybe I'm using wrong permission. Here's the relevant part of my smb.conf. Regards Tilo os level = 200 local master = yes bind interfaces only = true security = user encrypt passwords = yes null passwords = yes min password length = 0 domain logons = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes logon script = %I.bat logon drive = h: logon home = "\\server\%U" logon path = "\\server\profile" time server = yes dead time = 15 kernel oplocks = yes mangle case = yes case sensitive = no default case = lower preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes name resolve order = wins bcast host lmhosts printing = cups load printers = yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers nt acl support = yes log level = 1 max log size = 100000 use sendfile = no large readwrite = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 utmp = yes passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost guest algorithmic rid base = 1000 printing = cups printcap name = cups load printers = yes unix charset = ISO-8859-15 unicode = yes display charset = UTF8 dos charset = ISO-8859-15 unix extensions = yes ldap admin dn = uid=wilma2,dc=my-domain ldap suffix = dc=my-domain ldap machine suffix = ou=machines ldap group suffix = ou=groups ldap idmap suffix ldap user suffix = ou=people ldap passwd sync = yes idmap gid = 30000-40000 idmap uid = 30000-40000 [netlogon] comment = The domain logon service veto files = // path = /samba/netlogon create mode = 0600 directory mode = 0700 public = no writeable = no browseable = no root preexec = /samba/netlogon/findgroup %I %u %L root postexec = /etc/samba/quota_warn.sh %U %m oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no use sendfile = no [profile] comment = Hier wird das Benutzerprofil gespeichert path = /home/%g/%u/profile writeable = yes browseable = no create mask = 0711 directory mask = 0711 dos filemode = no force security mode = 00 hide files = /desktop.ini/Desktop.ini/ map system = Yes map hidden = Yes profile acls = yes