[K12OSN] regfile for redirect of My Documents

[Heath Henderson]

I do this with our Netware servers.  It works very well. But, I would
suggest you redirect to a folder such as.

/home/username/Documents

This works better because some Apps use a directory path instead of just a
Drive letter. They add a hash (\) at the end of the path.  With Personal
mapping to something like H:\ this adds \ to become H:\\

Adobe apps had problems with this early on.

What to redirect.  This is Profile based.  Local
Users>Software>Microsoft>Windows Current Version>Explorer> Two directories
hold personal reg paths.  Change here,  History, Favorites, Personal,
Desktop etc.


-- 
Heath Henderson
Technology Administrator
McLean County Unit 5 Schools
Normal, IL 61761
--



We map Folks an H Drive.  They all receive the H Drive (their personal
drive).

But, within there are a set of Directories mapped


On 7/3/05 10:53 PM, "David Trask" <dtrask at vcsvikings.org> wrote:

> This is part of a conversation that Chuck and I were having off-list....I
> thought you might want to see it.  I use Samba/LDAP...thus all my users
> have profiles and home directories in one server....my goal is to redirect
> My Documents to the users /home folder thus enabling stuff to be saved
> instantly rather than waiting until logoff.  Here's what I've found and
> tried....
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Check this out 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/honeycutt.mspx
>   I can see how I can do this....using Samba/LDAP all my users have a home
> directory....this lives at /home/username.....the profiles, however, live
> at /opt/samba/profiles/username....  I do, however, map the users home
> directory (when logged into Windows) with a login script that looks like
> this....
> 
> REM To set the time when the clients logon to the domain:
> net time \\10.0.0.234 /set /yes
> REM
> REM To map a home directory to drive f:
> net use f: /home
> 
> thus....if the suggestion on this page works...I can simply make a
> registry change and point "My Documents" to the users /home folder or a
> folder within that /home by pointing it simply to drive F:   (I hope)
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sunday, July 3, 2005 11:47:46 PM
> Message
> From:  David Trask
> Subject: Re(4): fileserver smb.conf-Even easier
> To:  cliebow at downeast.net
> 
> David Trask on Sunday, July 3, 2005 at 11:28 PM +0000 wrote:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/honeycutt.mspx
> 
> Are you guys using Windows XP Pro?  That's all I have in my building (and
> 2003 Terminal Server which works the same way)....I tried this method
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310147  while
> logged into my Windows Terminal Server from home....it works great!  I can
> simply instruct all my users to make the change or...I can create the
> "default profile" or mandatory profile with this change....My Documents
> pointed to F:   So when my users first log in at the start of the school
> year...their profile will be initially based on the "default" profile I
> create and thus it will have all the changes.
> 
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
> 
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
> 
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