Integrating Win95 and Samba

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> > Then I added 'regedit z:\import.reg' at the end of the login script I
> > use.
> > 
> > But...you guessed it...this does not work at all ! Win95 just creates
> > a extremely reduced entry into the registry base (not even a simple
> > copy of HKEY_USERS/.Default) and ignores any profile (Be it on the
> > server or on the local hard drive). Enven worse, this changes the
> > setting of the Passwd Icon of the Control Panel, unchecking the box
> > that enables custom dektops. The only satisfaction is that the values
> > in import.reg appear in the registry base ;)
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > So how can I have netscape (for example) configured for any user who
> > logs in ? Several persons said they could do this.
> 
> When you get the roaming profiles working, this happens automatically.
> 
> > What is the use of the /R: modifier for regedit ? (when I use it,
> > nothing seems to happen). 
> 
> Real-mode reagistry editor swicthes to specify a file for the user.dat
> portion of the registry.
> 
> > How to prevent Windows from writing a local user profile when it is
> > already written on the server?
> 
> These are the registry setting that seem to matter.
> 
> ----------------snip----------------
> REGEDIT4
>  
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon]
> "UseHomeDirectory"=dword:00000001
> "UserProfiles"=dword:00000001
> 
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\jdoe]
> "ProfileImagePath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe"
> 
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProfileReconciliation]
> "ProfileDirectory"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe"
> 
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders]
> "Desktop"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\Desktop"
> "Programs"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\Start Menu\\Programs"
> "Start Menu"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\Start Menu"
> "Startup"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup"
> "Recent"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\Recent"
> "NetHood"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Profiles\\jdoe\\NetHood"
> 
> 
> ----------------snip----------------
> 
> You can make these directories point to whereever you wish.  My
> experience has been that it is better to set one machine to use user
> profiles and let Win95 create the user.dat file for you and then copy it
> to use as a default for that machine ( or setup ).

uh... my suggestion would be not to edit the hklm/sw/ms/w/cv/e/shell 
folders registry entries: a domain logon should automatically change 
these on logon.

luke