basic question on permissions for [profiles]

[Gerald W. Carter]

>Hallo!
>
>   I use the folowing settings:
>
>	[Global]
>	    logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U\Profile
>
>	[Profiles]
>	    path = /home
>	    browseable = no
>	    guest ok = yes
>
>    And it works fine with me... the profile files are automatically
>created (for Windows NT clients) in the user's directory, whitin' the
>directory 'Profile'. This directory can be 711...  

Yup.  Since smbd runs as root that is fine as well.



Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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