Redirecting "My documents" folder on a Win2003 TS

[Mic]

Hi all,
I've tinkering about this all day and not sure if I've missed
something or this is not doable, please help....

The scenario:
1) The domain is an NT 4.0 domain
2) The Terminal Services are Windows Server 2003 based
3) Want to redirect the entire user profile (under the C:\Documents
and Settings folder) to terminal services users to a NAS server (so
like redirecting to \\nasSvr\profile$\%username% thingy)

Have tried using local policies on Win2003 (gpedit.msc) and the NT
usrmgr (run from Win2003 but hitting the NT 4 PDC).

The profile stuffs (like desktop settings etc) gets copied to the NAS
as roaming profile. Good, that what's needed. But the "My Document"
folders don't seem to be, so when the user saves something from Word,
the default doc folder is still "C:\Documents and Settings\myName\My
Documents" and not the NAS one.

The thing is AD is not used but still an NT4 based domain.

How do I get about this other than having to plan a big migration to
AD.

Many many thanks....

Best regards.

 

[Dennis van der Meer]

You could try to use poledit and include the following location in the
policy:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

At least this is the location on my Windows XP machine. I don't think
that it will be different on older versions. Remember that you might
have a problem redirecting it to a network drive cause the network
mapping might not be established when the profile is read by the
system so it might cause errors. But I don't know about that so you'll
have to experiment with this.

 

[Mic]

Thanks Dennis,
I'll have a go at it. I'm just concerned that this might also affect
the user when they signon to the regular desktop PCs. We'd like to
just redirect the profile when the user signs on to TS. So far using
usrmgr looks alright except for the redirection of the "My Documents"
folder. I've currently got an idea too using regedit to pump the reg
in but prior to that have a script check if its in a TS Server. Gonna
experiment on it first..

Thanks and regards.


You could try to use poledit and include the following location in the
policy:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\S
hell
Folders

At least this is the location on my Windows XP machine. I don't think
that it will be different on older versions. Remember that you might
have a problem redirecting it to a network drive cause the network
mapping might not be established when the profile is read by the
system so it might cause errors. But I don't know about that so you'll
have to experiment with this.