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 <dst@gilberd.essex.sch.uk> wrote: > Is there ANY way in Samba (or even Windows...

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/