samba - Feb 1998 - How to set Netscape enviroment on Samba home drive ?

> Does anybody know if it is possible to configure Netscape in such a way
> that  ALL netscape preferences and options (most important is email
> address) will be saved on samba home ?
You get this kind of stuff by default with roaming profiles.( ie
user.dat or ntuser.dat ) If you are referring to netscape 4 then just
point the profile to the home directory (mapped to a consistent drive
letter)  Ther was another post describing this method.



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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
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Dear Tomek Jarosinski <jarosins@rzbt.fh-hamburg.de>
> public and his home. It is possible to configure different windows
> application in such way that all preferences etc are saved on H:\-
> unix home connected with samba. On unix side we are using Netscape
> for our email.
> 
> Does anybody know if it is possible to configure Netscape in such a
> way that ALL netscape preferences and options (most important is
> email address) will be saved on samba home ?
> 
Are you talking about Netscape 4.0? At least some of the (user) 
information about Netscape is integrated in the registry database
under the HKLM tree, which is machine (and not user) specific. The
other information (preferences) can be installed on a H: drive. 
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> You get this kind of stuff by default with roaming profiles.( ie
> user.dat or ntuser.dat ) If you are referring to netscape 4 then
> just point the profile to the home directory (mapped to a consistent
> drive letter) Ther was another post describing this method.
Will it store mail folders in the same directory as the person's
profile, or is that configurable too?

Ideally, I would like to put the programs on drive C: (or possibly on a
public network drive) but have the profile, cache, mail folders etc be
in the user's home area (which is always drive M: on \\server\homes).

Pegasus does this very well but I am ready for something different.
Mark

>         Does anyone know if there is any way of saving the Netscape
> portion of keys on the registry above HKeyLocalMachine on a samba
> drive. I would like that if a user created a profile in NEtscape 4.0
> via User Profile Manager in one machine in our lab, he/she would
> see that profile already created when he/she logged in on another 
> machine in the lab.
> 
>         I know that the HKCU portion of the registry goes to the 
> USER.DAT file on the user's home directory. But settings like e-mail
> address, etc., don't go to USER.DAT (since they're in HKLM keys).
> 
Setup a registry file to import ( overwrite ) the setting to HKLM during
the logon script.  Mail me if you need more explanation.





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                            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
)

"Gerald W. Carter" <cartegw@Eng.Auburn.EDU> wrote
> Setup a registry file to import ( overwrite ) the setting to HKLM during
> the logon script.  Mail me if you need more explanation.
ok, that would be a good idea.
But little question : does user see that a reg file is imported? i mean
does 95 put on the boring box telling that the reg file was well imported?

If yes, how to prevent this?

How with a reg file destroy entries from registry...?



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Michel Applaincourt wrote:
> 
> 
> ok, that would be a good idea.
> But little question : does user see that a reg file is imported? i mean
> does 95 put on the boring box telling that the reg file was well
> imported?
> 
> If yes, how to prevent this?
regedit /s ( see http://www.halcyon.com/cerelli/tipsframe.htm for a
collection of registry tips )
> How with a reg file destroy entries from registry...?
You can set the value to be "" or 0 or use INF files to remove
registry
values.  A good example would probably be the sp1unins.inf file that
comes with Service Pack 1.  It is installed in the \windows directory




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________________________________________________________________________
                            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
)