My Documents Redirection

[Sameer Pathan]

Hello All,

I am stuck at this point & need some proffesional advice.Here is the
issue I am having :

1. I have a single Windows 2000 Terminal Server in a domain (Do not
have rights the domain controller in any way to create anything).Users
log on to this domain & all have local profiles.I have restricted the
users as much as possible by using a default user template to control
most of the desktop security. The issue I am having right now is that
I need to reduirect the users My documents to the D:\users\<username>
drive. I cannot go to the users MY docuemnts & right click on the
folder & move the folder.I have about 30 - 40 users. SO I have been
reading a lot & cannot find any answer for my question.

a.I tried to modify the
HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT\Software\microsoft\currentversion\explorer\user
shell folders\<personal> key this is where I guess the default users
MY documents path is stored.the valuse right now is %USERPROFILE%\My
documents. now is there a way where I can use variables to point this
key so that the MY DOCUMENTS is pointing to
\\servername\sharename\username . Any help is appreciated on this.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

why dont you try

Change %USERPROFILE%\My documents on the Data registry key to servername\sharename\%username

Remember that when any users logs on to the server for the first time, the system creates a user profile with the currently account name. In this profile you will find the path %USERPROFILE%\My documents, among other things. The system recognize the current account as %USERPROFILE%. This is the variable that you need.

 

[DavieC]

If you don't have admin rights to create a Group Policy, I suppose you could
run some sort of script at logon which will change the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
shell folders path.

You could use VBScript or Kix, or maybe one of the Resource Kit tools (can't
recall the name of it right now)

DavieC