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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Chris on January 07, 2004, 12:17:03 AM
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Is there a way to force a default webpage for all computers on my network?? (like the corporate webpage with news and company info for employees ) They are all in a workgroup behind a SME server running 6 final. The only thing i can think of is either
A. Go to everyone and set it.
B. Setup a domain and figure out how to do it within the domain. (i use to remember)
Any ideas would be great.
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For you win clients, use the registry.
Copy this text and save to a file with a .reg extension (for 2000 and xp)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://www.thebennetthome.com"
Modify it to suite your needs, place it in a share that your users have access to, then in your login script call it using regedit /s filename.reg.
If you have win9x or I believe the top line needs to be changed from a 5 to a 4. You can easily test this by opening regedit and exporting something. The top line will show you the syntax
Also, if you have a mix of win9x and 2000/xp you will have to check for %OS% and then point the clients to the proper file for regedit to import.
Here is a quick example:
@echo off
if "%OS%" =="Windows" goto windows
if "%OS%" =="Windows_NT" goto NT
goto regular
:windows
regedit /s win9xhomepage.reg
goto regular
:NT
regedit /s homepage.reg
:regular
rem this is the rest of your login script
My win2k and xp machines %OS% = Windows_NT, I don't have any win9x machines to check, but you should be able to go to a command prompt and type set and see what the OS variable is set to.
Hopefully, this give you a decent start.
Good Luck,
JB
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Does this mean i have to go to computer to computer and merge this *.reg? Is there a automatic way to do this?
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No, do it with your login script per the previous example. Within the login script have it execute regedit /s homepage.reg. That way even if your users are changing their home page, when they logout and back in, it will default back to where you want it to go.
I used this method about 7 years ago, and it works fine. I erks some users, but it will default to the homepage you set it.
JB