Hi, here ist the profile part of my smb.conf, it's samba 3.0.14a on Redhat EL4: [Profiles] comment = Roaming profiles share path = /shares/profiles writeable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0770 browsable = no valid users = @users root force user = %U profile acls = yes hide dot files = no csc policy = disable I am testing an eclipse workspace on XP SP2 but the workspace seems to be corrupt after roaming. I looked at file rights but everything seems ok. (The .metadata dir ist writable) Here is the part of the eclipse logfile: !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2005-06-10 15:17:23.655 !MESSAGE The platform metadata area could not be written: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\tr.DOM\workspace\.metadata. By default the platform writes its content under the current working directory when the platform is launched. Use the -data parameter to specify a different content area for the platform. !STACK 0 java.lang.IllegalStateException: The platform metadata area could not be written: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\tr.DOM\workspace\.metadata. By default the platform writes its content under the current working directory when the platform is launched. Use the -data parameter to specify a different content area for the platform. I added "hide dot files = no" to get the directories with the beginning . _not_ hidden but it does not work. I cannot see any difference in file/folder permission before/after roaming. Anybody seen this? Thanks Rainer