samba - Oct 2004 - Redirect "My Documents" for NT through XP

I have seen ways to redirect "My Documents" for XP through the
registry, and
I've seen ways to do it in NT if you have NT server actually connected to 
your PDC.  I've seen ways to do it in 9x if you have Windows 98 somewhere so
that you can use their policy editor.  Isn't there some way that I can do it
for everyone all at once?  I don't happen to have any Win98 machines.  I
only
have one NT server which is not connected to the domain.  I really want to 
redirect My Documents because I'm worried about what will happen if someone 
saves a document and their machine crashes before they log out of the PDC 
(no, Windows NEVER crashes).

Any help would be appreciated.  By the way, ifmember.exe is beautiful.  If 
anyone needs help with group-aware logon.bat scripts, I will be glad to give 
you some examples.

Misty

Misty Stanley-Jones schrieb:
> I have seen ways to redirect "My Documents" for XP through the
registry, and
> I've seen ways to do it in NT if you have NT server actually connected
to
> your PDC.  I've seen ways to do it in 9x if you have Windows 98
somewhere so
> that you can use their policy editor.  Isn't there some way that I can
do it
> for everyone all at once?  I don't happen to have any Win98 machines. 
I only
> have one NT server which is not connected to the domain.  I really want to 
> redirect My Documents because I'm worried about what will happen if
someone
> saves a document and their machine crashes before they log out of the PDC 
> (no, Windows NEVER crashes).
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  By the way, ifmember.exe is beautiful.  If 
> anyone needs help with group-aware logon.bat scripts, I will be glad to
give
> you some examples.
> 
> Misty
Hi, as win98 cannot be a real domain member there will be no magic
to do this with ntconfig.pol,
but there is a way i think.
create the right reg file ( for redirect the My documents in win98 )and 
use win98 regedit version , copy it both in the netlogon share ( maybe 
sub folder ) in your default logon.bat insert a check to the inlogging 
win version and invoke a subbatch job which does the reg patch.
I think there must be ways to this with win scripting too.
As the win version vari in some thing at behavior at logon
a general version check is always good to have.
At last mixed setups ( many win versions ) cannot be recommended
especially if you use roaming profile...these problems are not really
samba related , so googling on win admin sites should help you much
about solving such problems
Regards