Hi All, I don't know whether here is the right place to ask as this question is probably more Windows related than Samba related but I thought someone here might have some ideas. I've got a Samba 2.2.5 PDC (running on FreeBSD but that doesn't really matter) serving Windows XP machines. The roaming profiles are set to be stored in a different share to the users home directory so that the users don't see all the windows related files. ie \\SERVER\profiles\$user and home dirs are \\SERVER\$user The problem that i have is if users store files in the windows 'My Documents' they get stored with the profile. I would like the files to instead be stored in the users home dir. I thought of sym linking everyones 'My Documents' dir to their home dir but another problem is that the 'My Documents' folder gets copied to and from the file server at logon/logoff. Some users have Gigs of files and so i would prefer it if they were used accessed when needed from the file server rather than cached on the local machines hdd. I suppose basically my question is: Is there anyway to get Windows to copy the profile but exclude the 'My Documents' folder? (I know you can set the location of the 'My Documents' folder in each windows profile. (By right clicking on it i think) but i need to do it server side and for all users at once.) --- Jonathan Dean jon.dean@deanuk.net www.jondean.com Dept. Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK. j.s.dean@ex.ac.uk www.dcs.ex.ac.uk Network Manager, Dean UK Networks. root@deanuk.net www.deanuk.net -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Interesting one, please let us know if and how you get it right, it sound like a good trick to have up the sleeve. Chow, Trevor. ========================Stussy said:"Knowledge is King! ======================== ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Dean To: samba@lists.samba.org Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: [Samba] My Documents folder and roaming profiles. Hi All, I don't know whether here is the right place to ask as this question is probably more Windows related than Samba related but I thought someone here might have some ideas. I've got a Samba 2.2.5 PDC (running on FreeBSD but that doesn't really matter) serving Windows XP machines. The roaming profiles are set to be stored in a different share to the users home directory so that the users don't see all the windows related files. ie \\SERVER\profiles\$user and home dirs are \\SERVER\$user The problem that i have is if users store files in the windows 'My Documents' they get stored with the profile. I would like the files to instead be stored in the users home dir. I thought of sym linking everyones 'My Documents' dir to their home dir but another problem is that the 'My Documents' folder gets copied to and from the file server at logon/logoff. Some users have Gigs of files and so i would prefer it if they were used accessed when needed from the file server rather than cached on the local machines hdd. I suppose basically my question is: Is there anyway to get Windows to copy the profile but exclude the 'My Documents' folder? (I know you can set the location of the 'My Documents' folder in each windows profile. (By right clicking on it i think) but i need to do it server side and for all users at once.) --- Jonathan Dean jon.dean@deanuk.net www.jondean.com Dept. Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK. j.s.dean@ex.ac.uk www.dcs.ex.ac.uk Network Manager, Dean UK Networks. root@deanuk.net www.deanuk.net -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
There is a registry key you can set on the clients to exclude certain directories from being copied with the profile - ie things like 'temporary internet files' you most definitely do not want to be copied! Win2000 defaults to exclude these with policies. I cannot remember the name of the reg key but once you find it it will be relatively simple to have a login script adjust this as clients logon with a .reg file. In fact there is a way to use the NT system policies with Samba - create a .pol file with poledit. HTH -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Fraser [mailto:trevor@systematic.co.za] Sent: 23 August 2002 09:08 To: Jonathan Dean Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] My Documents folder and roaming profiles. Interesting one, please let us know if and how you get it right, it sound like a good trick to have up the sleeve. Chow, Trevor. ========================Stussy said:"Knowledge is King! ======================== ----- Original Message ----- From: HYPERLINK "mailto:jon.dean@deanuk.net"Jonathan Dean To: HYPERLINK "mailto:samba@lists.samba.org"samba@lists.samba.org Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: [Samba] My Documents folder and roaming profiles. Hi All, I don't know whether here is the right place to ask as this question is probably more Windows related than Samba related but I thought someone here might have some ideas. I've got a Samba 2.2.5 PDC (running on FreeBSD but that doesn't really matter) serving Windows XP machines. The roaming profiles are set to be stored in a different share to the users home directory so that the users don't see all the windows related files. ie \\SERVER\profiles\$user and home dirs are \\SERVER\$user The problem that i have is if users store files in the windows 'My Documents' they get stored with the profile. I would like the files to instead be stored in the users home dir. I thought of sym linking everyones 'My Documents' dir to their home dir but another problem is that the 'My Documents' folder gets copied to and from the file server at logon/logoff. Some users have Gigs of files and so i would prefer it if they were used accessed when needed from the file server rather than cached on the local machines hdd. I suppose basically my question is: Is there anyway to get Windows to copy the profile but exclude the 'My Documents' folder? (I know you can set the location of the 'My Documents' folder in each windows profile. (By right clicking on it i think) but i need to do it server side and for all users at once.) --- Jonathan Dean jon.dean@deanuk.net HYPERLINK "http://www.jondean.com/"www.jondean.com Dept. Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK. j.s.dean@ex.ac.uk HYPERLINK "http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/"www.dcs.ex.ac.uk Network Manager, Dean UK Networks. root@deanuk.net HYPERLINK "http://www.deanuk.net/"www.deanuk.net --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed