SAMBA digest 1546

[Seth Vidal]

> Vassilis Virvilis (vasvir at iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr) wrote:
> : Bruce Cook wrote:
> : > 
> : > --snip!
> : > 
> : > What you want is server based user profiles.
> : > Weel why didn't you say so :)
> : > 
> : > This is an extract from a news item that occured a while ago.
> : > 
> : > --snip!
> : > 
> : 
> : I have setup  User profiles succesfully (almost out of the box) but I am
> : having some problems with the time. Windows 95 tend to decide if they
> : are going to load the local or the network profiles from the the time
> 
> The point is that Windows95 should have a way to turn off all of this
> "local login" nonsense. It's approach of attempting to keep 2 sets of
> files synchronised is a complete kludge. And rather pointless, it's
> quite possible to have the start menu on a network drive, even on a
> mapping which points to a network drive. However MicroSoft also "broke"
> regedit so that it will not work correctly in a login script. What
> it does is put up a check box to say it's changed the registary then
> waits for the user to click the OK button.
> 
actually not entirely true.
there is an undocumented paramater (regedit /s) which does registry updates
SILENTLY.

give it a run.

-sv