Two ways to do it. One is on a per user basis, and the other is through policies.
First: Per User --------------- All that needs to be done is to change one registry key, in HKCU. All other methods essentially do this for you and give you a cleaner interface. I cant remember the registry key to change off the top of my head, but if you want I can find it for you. Second: Policies ---------------- I know this can surely be done with Group Policies in Win2K/XP. But SAMBA does not support Active Directory Objects yet (needs to serve them up). But NT4 sytle system policies are supported by samba. It just involves placing a NTConfig.pol file in the netlogon share. But I dont know if NT4 System policies allow folder redirection. The way I am planning to use (still experimenting with it), is to use method one (Still dont have a way to generate a NTConfig.pol file, since I only have a Win2K Advanced Server CD and not a NT4 server CD). Basically, we allow the users to create a .windowsrc file in their home directory which is in INI format. Then during logon, as part of the logon script, this file is read, parsed and settings specified there are implemented. Settings include folder redirection and mounting network shares, and hope to add more features eventually. The only problem I have is that: In my case, I want the My Documents redirected to a network share (usually their home directory). The redirection works fine. Windows realises the redirection is in effect and does not download MyDocuments from the profiles directory. But in order to improve network performance (or whatever), it is trying to cache the MyDocuments locally. Since user home directories are typically huge (100MB), it is downloading the entire MyDocuments folder, which is a bad thing. I still need to figure out, how to tell windows programmatically, not to cache MyDocuments. So any changes they make is written to the network share immediately. Even if it means loosing MyDocuments when there is a network outage. Hope this helps. - Murali -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba hi, how can i set up the folder "my documents" on clients desktop on my samba pdc? thanks andrea __________________________________________________________________ Tiscali ADSL a 1 euro al giorno, traffico incluso!e in piu' telefoni gratis. Abbonati entro il 31 maggio, l'attivazione e' gratuita. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
