Apologies if this is the wrong foru

[Mark2K]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I have also posted it in the Microsoft: NT 4.0 Server forum.

We have an NT 4 network with Win 98 SE clients. I work in a school and when the students come along saying that their accounts are disabled due to using to much disk space (we use a third party program called NetSpace from Flo which deals with the disk space quota), we notice that all their work is duplicated with in My Documents.

I feel this is something to do with the fact that we are using policies (as a result we have to have user profiles enabled on the local machine) and the user gets asked if they wish to save their settings on the computer, which they will generally answer yes to.

Any idea on how we can stop this.

Mark

 

[tsuji]

Hello, Mark2K.

Not absolutely sure if it is the Don't Save Settings at Exit option in System\Shell\Restrictions. The registry setting would then be:

;----below this line----
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000001

;----above this line----

The reverse (or default) would be :
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
or
"NoSaveSettings"=-

regards - tsuji

 

[mscallisto]

If you have a network administrator at your school she/he would be the one to ask this question to.

Much Luck

 

[Mark2K]

tsuji,

Thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately this doesn’t do the trick.

mscallisto,

That's an idea, the only thing is we are the network administrators and we can't work out a solution.

Thanks
Mark

 

[cdogg]

First of all, when you say "all their work is duplicated within My Documents" are you saying there's more than one entry for the same doc? Do you want them to use disk space on a shared drive versus the local drive on the workstation they're using??

Maybe I'm completely off in suggesting this, but can't you just assign read and execute permissions for the My Documents directory on each workstation, which will force them to save docs elsewhere (preferably the server or location where you want them saved)?