I agree that this is a great topic for discussion. We have also gone this way and have an automated install from and SMB dos disk and use Rdist4PC for distribution (which is free) and have about 20,000 roving users and thus removed that "you have not logged in..." message. we use Kixtart to do our printer installations. We should all share our info and create the best automated method... Jason>Did you actually get all the relevant entries in the registry to point >at the users home directory as the desktop? Or does this work in the >"ususal" way that the desktop is copied from/to the server at >login/logout? If the former, I would be very interested how you did >it.We have changed the reg entries and pointed all to users home dir on server. Thus no more log out then update user profile on server...I would be happy to send you the changes.. Later, Jason e-mail: jason.gerrity@sheridanc.on.ca
> > We have changed the reg entries and pointed all to users home dir on > server. Thus no more log out then update user profile on server...I > would be happy to send you the changes.. >I have the same type of setup although [blush] I was a little nervous about pointing the ProfileImagePath key to point kdirectly to the user's home directory. No problem associated with it huh? COOOOOL..... Will have to go back and try that. Two things that might be of interest to people is the fact that it is rather hard to tell who has looged during the login script ( Win95 box validating against Samba box ). I use a root preexec script to create 2 files in the user home directory. - username.bat ( simply has line "set USERNAME=<username>" ) you can fill in the blanks - profile.inf ( creates the registry key to get right of that annoying "you have never...." On the Unix side the scripts are trivial so they can be called as BATCH file and INF files from the login script assuming that the suer's home directory has been mount first thing in the logon script.. For example... rem --------- Update the local system clock :time net time \\solar /set /yes rem ---------- Mount the Network drives & printers :drives net use h: \\solar\homes net use i: \\solar\apps net use k: \\solar\pc_lab net use lpt1: \\solar\pebble rem ---------- set the USERNAME environment variable :username call h:\username.bat echo %USERNAME% %WINBOOTDIR%\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection DuringLogon 132 h:\profile.inf Works very well. Credit given to Eric Bennett <bennett@hpl.umces.edu> for the infoforamtion on the INF files. Always interested in ways to keep from sitting in front of a PC when it can be done from a UNIX box :) j- ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 ) ________________________________________________________________________