Default IE preferences

[James Nord]

There are 2 ways I know of - possibly more.

1) Download the IE customization kit, there you can change almost
everything about the browser,
Home page, Proxy, Logo, IE Browser String...

Then you would need to roll this out onto the machines you use (and will
need to be re-done for each upgrade of IE IIRC)

2) Use NT Policies, and set them up with the defaults you want for IE. 
I can't help you much here but searching the samba archive will tell you
how to set them up and searching microsoft will get you the default
policy files for you to change (and also the policy editing tool
poledit)

/James

eirvine wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using Samba as a win-9x logon server in a high school
> for quite a while now. Roving profiles etc. Most of my  users
> (1650 of 'em) are not up to setting the Explorer proxy/home page
> preferences for themselves, so I created a standard USER.DAT file
> that gets copied to their HOME share when they first log on.
> 
> This worked fine with Win9x.
> 
> I've been experimenting with samba 2.07 and NT4. I seem to have the
> roving profile/logon thing happening now, but when I use
> a standard NTUSER.DAT file, it seems to kill the profile thing for my
> users stone dead. If they log in for the first time, with no NTUSER.DAT
> file, roving profiles are A-OK, but IE proxy settings are not set to
> the defaults that I want.
> 
> I need a user-transparent way to set up the IE home-page/proxy pac file
> for new users. With the age of my staff and the adolescence of my
> students, education is not an answer.
> 
> I don't have an NT server here - it is all FreeBSD/Samba.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Eddie.

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