Hi, I'm trying to get Samba to act as the PDC for a domain populated by Win2k boxen. All the machines are running Windows 2000 Professional. Unfortunately, the 2k boxen all produce this error when I try and log in as a normal user: Windows cannot log you on because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact your network administrator REASON - Access is denied. Here's my smb.conf: [ BEGIN SMB.CONF ] # Global parameters [global] netbios name = POLARIS server string = Main fileserver workgroup = MILKYWAY ; domain & local master browser ; coz we're dealing with Win2k os level = 65 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes local master = Yes domain logons = Yes ; misc options socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 time server = Yes ; do not allow guest access, use only local system accounts security = user guest ok = No invalid users = bin daemon sys man postfix mail ftp admin users = @root, root ; domain administrators ; domain admin group = @root ; domain admin users = root ; use encrypted passwords encrypt passwords = Yes ; logging (max log size is in kbytes) log level = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 debug timestamp = Yes syslog = 1 ; user roaming profiles path logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u ; general logon script (in DOS format) # logon script = logon.bat # interfaces = 10.0.0.5 # interfaces = eth0 # dns proxy = No # wins proxy = Yes # printer admin = root, philpem # printing = cups ; share for domain controller [netlogon] path = /samba/netlogon public = No writeable = No browsable = No valid users = root @users ; share for storing user profiles [profiles] path = /samba/profiles writeable = Yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browsable = No valid users = root @users profile acls = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /usr/spool/samba guest ok = Yes printable = Yes browseable = No [CDs] comment = CDs path = /samba/cds read only = Yes guest ok = Yes write list = root, philpem [public] comment = Public share (for file exchanging) path = /samba/public read only = No guest ok = Yes [print$] comment = Printer drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers write list = root, philpem [ END SMB.CONF ] /samba/profiles is chmod 1777, /samba/netlogon is chmod 755. Both are chowned root.root. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem@philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI Acme Dynamite. Guaranteed to fail unsafe.