The sameNetscape Profile on every machine

[Aaron D. Brooks]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 fricke at team.owl-online.de wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:16:21 +1100
> From: fricke at team.owl-online.de
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Subject: The sameNetscape Profile on every machine
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> is there any solution to have the same Netscape-Profile on every 
> NT-Machine in the network?
> I always have to configure the Netscape if somebody is changing his place 
> or just working on another machine.
> I work with Samba 2.04b and it´s great...
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I'm not sure if this answeres the problem you posed but what we do in our
labs is set the C:\winnt\nsreg.dat to direct Netscape to look to
X:\.netscape (X is where we map the user's home directory on the
network) for the profile. We do this using the Netscape profile editor and
then remove the profile editor from the lab machines. All users use the
default profile which points to their account. No matter where they log
in, their profile is with them. (Plus their configuration and bookmarks
follow them, AND since we have some links set up and use the .netscape
directory their Netscape bookmarks follow them even if they log in on the
UNIX side of the network). Having the directory named .netscape is not
necessary if you are only having Win32 clients use the Netscape profiles.

One other thing to note is that if the user's home dir does not mount for
some reason, Netscape will automagically try to break everything. To
prevent this our login script copies over the generic nsreg.dat to the
C:\winnt directory. This system works wonderfully.

Another alternative, actually a set of alternatives, is to use Netscapes
roaming profile configuration. This can be implemented either via LDAP or
an Apache module. Due to how Netscape implements this, however, it seems
to be less reliable. Plus, these methods make the system less maintainable
since they are not part of the filesystem.

-Aaron


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Computing Systems Resource Manager
Taylor University,  CSS Department
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