Turning OFF Network Profiles Safely

Eric Mason eric at technocraft.com
Sun Feb 7 23:31:40 GMT 1999


Now that's an interesting thought.  Do you know if NT accesses anything in
the profile before it runs the login script?  If not I could have it map the
home directory and then access the profile on that drive.  Does this make
sense?

>
> *You could try editing the profile paths to map to the server, but I've
> never tested that and I'm doubtful it works (let me know if it
> does!) -  eg.
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
> Settings\Cache\Paths]
> "Directory"="\\SERVER\Profiles\%USERNAME%\Temporary Internet Files"
> etc.
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explo
> rer\Shell
> Folders]
> "AppData"="\\SERVER\Profiles\%USERNAME%\Application Data"
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explo
> rer\Shell
> Folders]
> "Cache"=""\\SERVER\Profiles\%USERNAME%\Cache""
>
> (note the double-quotes for Cache, Cookies and History values, and
> %USERNAME% system variable)
>
> Jamie
> Engineering Society
> Queen's U
>



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