sorry, if this is slightly off topic, but I think this problem is faced by many Samba admins: I have set up a nice Samba 2.2 controlled domain, with all (but W2K) machines happily automounting a drive U:, which stands for utilities. I'd like to install freeware stuff like ssh, cygwin etc. in this directory. How do I deal with programs changing registry keys? Is there some mechanism which would a) identify which registry keys are changed, b) sum up those changes into something (a policy?), that will be merged with the clients registry at netlogon time? Thanks, Axel. -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de
Axel Thimm wrote:> > How do I deal with programs changing registry keys? Is > there some mechanism which would > a) identify which registry keys are changed, > b) sum up those changes into something (a policy?), that > will be merged with the clients registry at netlogon time?Look at sysdiff on the NT installation CD. You can generate INF files from this to get the registry key changes. Cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /\ Gerald (Jerry) Carter Professional Services \/ http://www.valinux.com/ VA Linux Systems gcarter@valinux.com http://www.samba.org/ SAMBA Team jerry@samba.org http://www.plainjoe.org/ jerry@plainjoe.org "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:54:10AM -0600, Gerald Carter wrote:> Axel Thimm wrote: > > How do I deal with programs changing registry keys? Is there some > > mechanism which would > > a) identify which registry keys are changed, > > b) sum up those changes into something (a policy?), that > > will be merged with the clients registry at netlogon time? > > Look at sysdiff on the NT installation CD. You can generate INF files from > this to get the registry key changes.Thanks, this seems to be the right tool for Windows NT (although I still have to understand how to incorporate this .inf file into the netlogon process, probably the Policy Editor will be my friend ...). What about Windows 95/98/ME? -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de