[Samba] WinXP profiles - NetHood problem

James Nord teilo at cdt.luth.se
Thu Apr 4 02:06:03 GMT 2002


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs

/James

Brian Whitehead wrote:

>Fortunately, I haven't had to work with XP yet, but this used to be possible
>with WinNT/2K using policies.  I used to use it to tell the clients not to
>save temporary internet files with the roaming profiles.  I'm sure there is
>a policy or registry hack that will do what you want.
>
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>Brian
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Miller" <paul-samba at pinheiro.tcimet.net>
>To: <brad at langhorst.com>
>Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Samba] WinXP profiles - NetHood problem
>
>
>>Is it possible to just veto / not copy the nethood directory?
>>
>>>Hey - me too.
>>>I just moved the .lnk files up one level which seems to work okay
>>>but when a user logs in for the first time and gets the default profile
>>>those .lnk files don't copy.
>>>
>>>I think maybe it's a windows problem...
>>>
>>>brad
>>>On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 16:37, Paul Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello fellow Samba users,
>>>>
>>>>I'm having problems with WinXP's profiles and network neighborhood
>>>>(NetHood).  All shortcuts/links are lost when the user logs off and
>>>>then logs back on.  They appear as regular directories with
>>>>desktop.ini & target.lnk files inside.  How can I get WinXP to
>>>>recognize these directories as network links?
>>>>
>>>>This is a real problem when users start coping files into the
>>>>directories thinking that it's actually a network drive...
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>-Paul
>>>>
>>>>
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