hello, i have a profile question here under is my profile definition. it's nothing more than the one from the idealx samba howto. profiles just work fine on my box BUT i want more ... i want a manager to have read/write acces on every users' profile subdirectory for troubleshooting from his windows workstation with invoking \\server\profiles. he's in the domain admins. How to do that Thank you for any help, i tried different scenarios (samba tweaking, acls inheritance and so on) for an afternoon and didnt find one working. ELH [profiles] path = /home/profiles read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No guest ok = Yes profile acls = yes csc policy = disable # next line is a great way to secure the profiles force user = %U # next line allows administrator to access all profiles valid users = %U @"Domain Admins" -- ?ric LE H?NAFF ?cole normale sup?rieure - Centre de ressources informatiques Informaticien, Ing?nieur d?veloppements et syst?mes aupr?s des biblioth?ques de l'ENS Pr?f?rez firefox! http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/ SVP, ?vitez de m'envoyer des attachements au format Word, Excel ou PowerPoint. Pr?f?rez les formats rtf, csv, html ou pdf au lieu des formats word et excel. Voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html pour plus d'explications.