[Samba] 3.0-cannot create profile directory...

averyl
Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:41:16 -0000

You should check the permissions on the parent directory.  Even though
/home/samba/profiles may be 1777, /home/samba might not be.  When
/home/samba was something like 744, i got this error, but changing it to
777 fixed it.

Good luck.