[THIN] Re: Using variables in the application REG's
- From: Mark Lee <marklee15@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:37:58 +0100 (BST)
Cool, nice to know some of the old tricks are still the best ;o)
"Henske, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Henske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just used this trick on an app suite that installed a few reg setting
into local machine. The install set a static path for user files and needed
to stay unique. We were thinking about installing into home directories,
but installing into their roaming profile via the subst command worked much
nicer.
The users are hitting the apps seamless and the only drive they see on the
server is their mapped profile. Pretty sweet.
Jennifer Henske
AG Edwards Technology Group
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lee [mailto:marklee15@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:00 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Using variables in the application REG's
Is the reg key under HKLM ? Forget system variables etc. in the registry,
work around the issue as follows and do what the compat scripts sometimes
do, subst a temp drive letter, eg.
in the login script, or usrlogin.cmd etc do a
subst X: %userprofile%
and set X: to any unused drive letter. Set the REG_SZ value in the registry
to point to the new static location X:\ This will work as each user will
have their own X:\ drive mapped to their user profile dir !
This deffinately works - we used to use this trick on our winframe systems
around 5+ years ago with Office 95 & then office 97 to cure the custom
dictionary issue before compat scripts were available..... If you need any
further pointers please let me know.
HTH
Mark
"Braebaum, Neil" wrote:
Can't you simply pre-empt the registry value (a type REG_SZ) with *expanded*
environment variables (in this case part of the profile path) by writing
into it with a login script?
Then when the application looks at the value, it already should have an
up-to-date value in it?
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schneider, Samuel M. Mr (Contractor) UHD
> [mailto:samuel.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 June 2003 20:01
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Using variables in the application REG's
>
> I believe that under normal circumstances this may be a valid
> soloution, however, the application i'm attemting to trick is
> looking for a specific type of key(REG_SZ). Is there a way to
> fool, intercept or redirect this key request to a
> REG_EXPAND_SZ key containing a variable. What I'm attempting
> to do is redirect the application data request from this app
> from a static location to a %userprofile% location to emulate
> a multi user application(doesn't exist).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Mangan [mailto:tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:27 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Using variables in the application REG's
>
> There is a special type of expandable reg string for this.
> Programmatically, REG_EXPAND_SZ instead of REG_SZ. You can't
> set one using regedit, you must use regedt32.exe (located in
> the system32 folder) instead. Allows you to include standard env vars.
>
> tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Schneider, Samuel M. Mr (Contractor) UHD
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Using variables in the application REG's
>
>
> Are there any special requirements when using variable values
> in an applications registry settings? anyone have experience
> with this? Thx
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