[windows2000] Re: Mirroring two users Favorites?

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:40:35 +0200

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:52:09 -0400, Sullivan, Glenn wrote:

>I use the same procedure to redirect the user's IE history folder, so that 
>their history folder travels with them from Terminal server to Terminal Server.
>
>I have guys that visit bid-board web sites, and if they can't see what they 
>visited yesterday (by the different colored links) then they are lost... but 
>because I round-robin-DNS'ed my terminal servers, there is no guarantee that 
>they will hit the same terminal server every day.
>
>And the last thing I wanted was to have the history in their roaming 
>profile... that adds about 2 minutes to the logon and logoff times...
>
>BTW, if you ever get any weird windows installed messages while using these 
>accounts, blame it on this registry entry first... the message is something 
>like "Invalid drive V:" or something similar.  But, as a work around, I just 
>change them back to %USERPROFILE%\Favorites when I need to do an install.
>
>And since users don't do installations (right?) they will never be impeded by 
>it...

My computer crashed badly the other day, and took the FS with it.
Had to reinstall the whole thing and set it up as before.

However. when I used regedit to set the shared favorites thingie,
it refused to keep the setting, always reverting to the original
"%USERPROFILE%\Favorites"-line.

Any idea as what may be wrong?

I have the same permissions and all setup as before.

Thx.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>Posted At: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:28 AM
>Posted To: Windows 2000
>Conversation: [windows2000] Re: Mirroring two users Favorites?
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Mirroring two users Favorites?
>
>
>On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:05:24 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>>>Change the value at 
>>>HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell 
>>>Folders\Favorites to point to a UNC...
>>
>>Is this a "sticky" registry setting or will it be overwritten byt
>>the Default Domain Policy (DDP) GPO, if it contains a different
>>setting? I checked my DDP on the DCs but didn't find anything
>>relating to the location of the Favorites folder.
>>
>>>Copy one of the user's favorites there...
>>>
>>>Make the UNC available offline (for XP/Win2K clients) if you want them to be 
>>>able to roam off the network and still use the favorites.
>>
>>Can't be simpler. Thx. 8-)
>
>Works like a charm! Also the settings seem to be sticky.
>
>Thx Glenn!
>
>
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>>>Posted At: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:37 AM
>>>Posted To: Windows 2000
>>>Conversation: [windows2000] Mirroring two users Favorites?
>>>Subject: [windows2000] Mirroring two users Favorites?
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>What is the simplest way to mirror two users' Favorites? They have
>>>two different profiles, and I'd like to to keep the Favorites
>>>folder synched/mirrored, so that any changes in one of the
>>>favorites, is automagically mirrored to the other.
>>>
>>>Is this at all possible?


BW,

Sorin

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