[K12OSN] OT: easy way to move "documents and settings" folder?

[Brian Chivers]

Sorry if I'm being a little slow here but aren't all the folders in 
doc's & settings controlled by one section of the registry ??

What we do is alter the location of My Doc's at login by using a login 
script that just alters the following in there registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell 
Folders

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User 
Shell Folders

My doc's is the key called "Personal" so I have a kixscript that does this

:alter_my_docs
    ;************************************************
    ;*         - Alter My Documents -        *
    ;************************************************
    
$ikey="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell 
Folders"
        IF (WriteValue($ikey,"Personal",$mydocs,"REG_SZ") <> 0)  
            ? "Update error MyDocuments @error: @serror"
        ENDIF
    
$ikey="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User 
Shell Folders"
        IF (WriteValue($ikey,"Personal",$mydocs,"REG_SZ") <> 0)  
            ? "Update error MyDocuments @error: @serror"
        ENDIF
RETURN

where $mydocs = there P: drive (why P:, p for personal :-) )

If you look at the Samba How to they have a whole section on "Folder 
Redirection" have a look at this

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Windows_Profiles#Folder_Redirection

&

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#redirfold

Something we also do is to use poledit to remove all files except for 
"favourites" (could alter registry to store this on there P: drive) from 
the users profile and delete profiles as they logout so keeping what's 
held in there roaming profile to a minimum.

If you'd like a complete copy of the login.kix script let me know.

Brian

Doug Simpson wrote:
> For teachers, they will learn after their "profile" disappears a few times to put their stuff in their H drive.
>
> For students, we had linux/samba set up and I had my samba server set up so that their profile was stored on the server but as soon as they logged out, samba deleted the server copy of their profile. Then, we had DriveShield (similar to DeepFreeze without the lockup problems) installed and once the computers were rebooted, they came back clean. . .(no local profiles, either) MAJOR space saver!!!!!!on the server and the workstation.
>
> If you would like assistance with setting this up in samba (the client-side stuff is a different animal) let me know and I can give you pointers and examples to make ti clean those wasteful profiles off the server at least. Then you can decide how to handle the client-side cleanup.
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> De Queen Public Schools
> De Queen, AR
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
>
>   
>>>> Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> 9/19/2007 12:24 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Huck is of no use here as well...sorry :(
> I only know of the other because when using Samba with roaming 
> profiles...when staff members put all of their files in My Documents(the 
> default location)...their login and logout times stretch over a 
> millennium it seems...and for some reason they do NOT listen when you 
> request/explain/ask/nudge/encourage them to save to the NETWORK drive(s).
>
> --Huck
>
> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:07:29 -0400, Rob Owens wrote
>>     
>>> Jim and Huck, thanks for the responses.  But I want to move not just "My
>>> Documents", but the entire Documents and Settings folder.  The reason is
>>> that things like temporary internet files, etc. are filling up the very
>>> small C drive on my terminal server.  Users are instructed to save all
>>> of their "stuff" on a network drive anyway, so My Documents doesn't
>>> actually take up much space.
>>>
>>> Also, to be clear, I'd like to set it up so that all new users get their
>>> settings put in d:\documents and settings\username
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>       
>> Ahh, my apologies.  I misread your original email which was very clear in stating you
>> wanted to move Documents and Settings.  Can't say I can help you there.  
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>     
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