different shells

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Tue Aug 31 00:35:50 GMT 1999


Well, with some REALLY complex scripting, you might be able to accomplish
that.  You know, parse win.ini, check to see what the value of the SHELL
line is, compare that to what it should be for that user.  If it's
different, replace it and reboot, if it's the same, then just log them in. 
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Miles [mailto:jmiles at smm.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 5:30 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Re: different shells
> 
> 
> 
> > AFAIK, you have to change that on workstations, and not on 
> the server.
> You
> > change it in win.ini (I think), in the line called 
> SHELL=explorer.exe.
> The
> > only think that I ever wanted to change it to was NAL 
> (Novell Application
> > Launcher), and only then as a security precaution.
> > Greg
> 
> I've tried this, but this is only works on a workstation 
> basis.  I want a
> different shell for each USER (ie. if they logon at a 
> different computer,
> the shell changes for them).
> 


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