RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] (Off-Topic: W2k profile discussion) RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba: Read-Only, but writing allowed?
*swears*
Sorry, my fault. It works now...
(Getting confused between renaming folder to .man and the ntuser.dat to
.man)
C'mon! It is Tuesday!
Thanks guys :)
Dug
-----Original Message-----
From: Dug Stokes [mailto:dst@gilberd.essex.sch.uk]
Sent: 15 July 2003 09:33
To: 'suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com'
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] (Off-Topic: W2k profile discussion) RE:
[suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba: Read-Only, but writing allowed?
Wish it would work! Was trying this yesterday:
With a ntuser.man, the user can pull down this file, but cannot seem to
CHANGE anything in the registry - even though it is stored locally. Printers
do not work, nor does anything else :(
With a ntuser.dat, the user can pull down the file, write to the local
version, but can obviously write back anything. This isn't so much of a
problem as they can't change much, but its still not really such a sensible
idea.
If it is read-only, the user can pull the file, write to the local, and
attempt to push it back up, but it errors (customised down to 1 second!) -
probably the best solution so far, but the error is quite annoying.
Hopefully that'll give you some more info on to what my problem is!
Dug
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Johnson [mailto:johnsonmlw@yahoo.com]
Sent: 15 July 2003 09:28
To: Dug Stokes
Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba: Read-Only, but writing allowed?
--- Dug Stokes
Bleugh!) - to have a read only share, yet anyone can write - but any writing is ignored? E.g. redirect all writing to /dev/null or something!?
Its for the profiles on our network (NT Server/2k Clients) - all students will soon use the same generic profile (as set in user manager) but if I make it read-only, it errors, if its writable, students can change anything!
Dug, I may have the wrong end of the stick, but that sounds like you want a ntuser.man profile rather than a read-only ntuser.dat? If I'm teaching my grandmonther to suck eggs, I'm sorry. If you want more info, ask. -- Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com
I'm at this very moment battling WindowsXP mandatory profiles with Samba. It all works and I plan to keep things simple by just using three versions of mandatory profiles and no policies... Is this Samba specific, or Windows, or am I just plain wrong... But it seems that My Documents is part of a profile right? And thus, a mandatory profile doesn't seem to change the contents of My Documents when you log off! So you can't save work? Can't be right! What am I doing wrong? Ta -- Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
seem to change the contents of My Documents when you log off! So you can't save work? Can't be right! What am I doing wrong?
My Documents can be redirected and excluded from the profile using ntconfig.pol. In this way, applications will look to a networked home directory automatically, and you don't get masses of files downloaded at logon. All the best, Nial.
I (and others?) would really apprecaite it if you posted the final solution to this problem in a single posting, when it's settled. I've been battling on and off with this too but have not produced an entirely satisfactory solution. I don't want individual profiles but do want a single desktop etc for each user, which if I understand you correctly, is what you are aiming at. At the moment I have achieved this (can't remember how!) but the user gets a message saying their profile can't be stored or located. As I have only very few XP clients they can live with that! John Low At 12:20 15/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
I'm at this very moment battling WindowsXP mandatory profiles with Samba. It all works and I plan to keep things simple by just using three versions of mandatory profiles and no policies...
Is this Samba specific, or Windows, or am I just plain wrong... But it seems that My Documents is part of a profile right? And thus, a mandatory profile doesn't seem to change the contents of My Documents when you log off! So you can't save work? Can't be right! What am I doing wrong?
Ta
-- Matt
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