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Title: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: danfulton on November 08, 2007, 01:28:51 PM

Hi,

I am trying to map the My Documents folder on XP Pro machines to a users home drive on the network, but am getting very confused looking at the info I've found ...

I've got the smeserver-loginscript-0.2-8.noarch.rpm contrib to change the netlogon.bat script, and map users shares happily, but can not figure out how to map the 'My Documents' folder.

I think I need to apply the following registry patch,

[Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"AppData"="H:\.windows_settings\Application Data"
"Desktop"="H:\.windows_settings\Desktop"
"Programs"="H:\.windows_settings\Start Menu\Programs"
"Recent"="H:\.windows_settings\Recent"
"Start Menu"="H:\.windows_settings\Start Menu"
"Startup"="H:\.windows_settings\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
"My Pictures"="H:\My Documents\My Pictures"
"Personal"="H:\My Documents"

But I'm not sure how to do it, for safety I think it should be installed everytime a user logs in, but have no idea how to achieve this :(

Any help much appreciated.

Dan

Title: Re: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: raem on November 08, 2007, 02:25:38 PM

danfulton

Assuming you already have mapped users home folders to H: drive.
In Windows, right click My Documents/Properties then
enter H:\ in the Target field, then click Move and then OK.

Title: Re: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: danfulton on November 08, 2007, 02:44:09 PM

That will work, but I'm after a way of doing it automatically, hopefully via a login script.

Dan

Title: Re: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: shell on November 09, 2007, 12:26:54 AM

You could create a small bat file that runs via the login script - use a call command.  The batch file can apply a reg key silently - use the /s switch.

For example:

In login script:

call \\servername\sharename\batchfile.bat

In batch file batchfile.bat:

regedit /s \\servername\sharename\printer.reg

Cheers,
Shelley

Title: Re: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: danfulton on November 09, 2007, 09:21:18 AM

shell,

That looks like a possible solution, I'll try it out, and let you all know the outcome.

Cheers

Dan

Title: Re: Map My Documents to network share
Post by: steever on November 13, 2007, 02:33:42 PM

You can always use poledit and http://open-sesame.com.au/redirect.zip (http://open-sesame.com.au/redirect.zip).