Topic: roaming profile alternative

[tropicalview]

dear all,

We have used SME + roaming profiles quite some time, but always we have the problem of corrupted roaming profiles.
so we have decided to stop using roaming profiles and start placing my documents on the network share (Z:)

but it seems harder than it looks like, you can do it with my documents by right click, properites, and change the path.
but that is per user & per machine... we have loads of users and loads of machines, no one has his own pc...

and on top of that all pc's are protected with juzt-reboot, so once a pc reboots all data from the HDD is resetted to the old settings.

i found out that redirecting my documents and other folders is only possible from a MS server.
i also found a post: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,45735.0.html but without any luck...

does anyone has a solution to place all desktop & my documents stuff to the network share?

Kind regards,

[axessit]

so we have decided to stop using roaming profiles

And so now whatever you do mucking around in the registry, right clicking etc for each user, you will have to do for each user on each workstation as you then state - aka local profiles.

and on top of that all pc's are protected with juzt-reboot

And now, any changes you do locally won't stick because you are using local profiles, not roaming profiles.

Maybe you need to investigate your original problem.

[Stefano]

if you are NOT using vista an 7 clients, search the forums for poledit
as long as your SME is your DC you can create a policy

in any case I agree  with axessit: you should first of all solve your original problem..

[Brave Dave]

For how to use Windows Scripting read here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yfdfhz1b(v=vs.85).aspx

You can place scripts in netlogon.bat like
CScript %LOGONSERVER%\Netlogon\myscript.vbs

Works under XP, not sure on Vista or 7, think it works writing to HKCU, but not HKLM

Example:

Dim WshShell
   Set WshShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Desktop", "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal", "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"