Effects of Registry Edit

[JCrou82]

I have been working on trying to do folder redirection using windows 98 workstations and windows 2000 server. I was told that you can only do it using Group Policy and that only windows 2000 professional and later would understand this. So I then downloaded tweakUI for win98 and to make a long story short, I edited the registry to store specific user folders on the server. This serves as "folder redirection" without the need for Group Policies, since win98 doesn't understand them anyway. I also have roaming profiles running, which is how I can store the files on the desktop and view them once logged in on any machine. Now my questions are as follows:

- Does anyone forsee any problems with doing this? Could I really do something "bad" to my workstations by editing the registry like I have?

- If there is nothing bad with doing this, with the exception of slowing down the network, which would happen even if I had Win2k Pro with folder redirection, Is there a script I can create to change the registry they way I want it everytime the user logs in, so that his folders can be "redirected"?

- Can someone point me or show me how to create a log-in script? I've never been shown how to do it.


The Key that I've edited is:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
and
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

Thank You in advanced

 

[tduplantis]

I don't think you will experience any problems doing this. This will also be quite easy to implement with a login script. All you have to do is export both of those keys using regedit (not regedt32) and then combine the files into one registry file (ie, import.reg). Then create a login script called whatever, (login.bat )and add this line:

import.reg /s

The /s will keep it from asking for confirmation to import registry file and it has to be a bat file for windows 98 machines. Put that file in the \\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts directory on the PDC and make sure you edit each users profile to point to the login.bat file. If you are already on an Active directory domain, then the path is \\winnt\Sysvol\DomainName\Scripts.

 

[JCrou82]

so all i need to create a login in script would be the combined registry file and add the line import.reg /s? than that's it?