steveB
10-13-1999, 05:33 PM
Hi,
Big problem. I am a network administrator and am setting up a network for several hundred users. I have created a pretty good default user account, with appropriate registry entries. I want to use this registry (NTUser.dat) for ALL users (I can do this on my samba domain server by putting the NTUser.dat file into the appropriate accounts). But I can't just copy my default! I tried putting it in WinNT\Profiles\Default User, but that's no help either. What happens is that when the user logs in, the registry in force is NOT the same as the one I copied into their home area. The file size is the same, but a lot of the entries have disappeared. Looking at the binary of NTUser.dat, I see that close to the beginning of my template file is "\Profiles\student.001\ntuser.dat" which is where the original (working) registry was stored. In a usual Default User directory, towards the beginning of the file you can see "def", and there's not path such as the one above.
I have also tried saving the registry to a text file. Although it would be a pain to load this into the registry for every single user (would I have to be logged in as the particular user, or can I do this to an arbitrary user while logged in as administrator?), there's a further BIG BIG problem...
... when you export registry entries to a text file, all variables eg %SYSTEMDIR% that I use in the registry are converted to their absolute values! So this is then no good to try to load into another user's registry as it points to all the wrong places... AAAARGH!
So, can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me? I would like to know what's going on, and what I might be able to do about it.
Thanks a million,
Steve Brandon
Big problem. I am a network administrator and am setting up a network for several hundred users. I have created a pretty good default user account, with appropriate registry entries. I want to use this registry (NTUser.dat) for ALL users (I can do this on my samba domain server by putting the NTUser.dat file into the appropriate accounts). But I can't just copy my default! I tried putting it in WinNT\Profiles\Default User, but that's no help either. What happens is that when the user logs in, the registry in force is NOT the same as the one I copied into their home area. The file size is the same, but a lot of the entries have disappeared. Looking at the binary of NTUser.dat, I see that close to the beginning of my template file is "\Profiles\student.001\ntuser.dat" which is where the original (working) registry was stored. In a usual Default User directory, towards the beginning of the file you can see "def", and there's not path such as the one above.
I have also tried saving the registry to a text file. Although it would be a pain to load this into the registry for every single user (would I have to be logged in as the particular user, or can I do this to an arbitrary user while logged in as administrator?), there's a further BIG BIG problem...
... when you export registry entries to a text file, all variables eg %SYSTEMDIR% that I use in the registry are converted to their absolute values! So this is then no good to try to load into another user's registry as it points to all the wrong places... AAAARGH!
So, can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me? I would like to know what's going on, and what I might be able to do about it.
Thanks a million,
Steve Brandon