Disappearing Backgrounds

[Scoty]

Hey everyone,
I have a situation where my users are using bmp files as backgrounds (they are stored on our main server). Used to be when they hit alt control del and lock their ws's the background would stay up. Now it goes to that default (blue green) screen and when they log back in the default screen stays up and they have to reapply their back ground in order to get it show. Can someone please tell me if this is normal and if it is, is there a work around for it.

Thanks
Scoty : "Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),

 

[thatrenowned]

Try copying the files onto the actual computer which the person is using.

 

[Stiddy]

Try copying the bmp to \winnt and renaming it winnt256.bmp

 

[Scoty]

Thanks guys I will give it a try.

Thanks
Scoty : "Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),

 

[thatrenowned]

What you could do is create a folder on their personal drives (that is assuming they have one each) and tell them that whatever they want their background to be, copy it into that folder and rename it to bkgrnd.bmp.
Then, in your logon script, add the following lines (U is my example for their user drives):

[tt]:BACKGROUND
IF EXIST U:\BACKGROUND\BKGRND.BMP COPY U:\BACKGROUND\BKGRND.BMP C:\WINNT > NUL[/tt]

Also, if you do use this, they will require change permissions on the WINNT folder.

Anyway, just a suggestion....