Guest ares Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Hi all, I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other than C drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located at "C:\Documents and Settings" as default when a new user account is created. My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any file in C drive, where the system files are located. I know how to map "My documents" directory out of C, but I have not been successful to do so for the whole user home directory. I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot!
Guest jorgen Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? ares wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other than C > drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located at "C:\Documents > and Settings" as default when a new user account is created. > My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any file in C drive, > where the system files are located. I know how to map "My documents" > directory out of C, but I have not been successful to do so for the whole > user home directory. > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot! check in the registry here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ ProfileList microsoft and google has some more in-depth information about it
Guest AJR Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? Location of a Users profile does not determine User rights and/or privilieges. Use Group/Local policy settings to restrict what a User can and cannot do. "ares" <ares@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17203AF3-35E2-414A-AB89-F5ED278D6134@microsoft.com... > Hi all, > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other than C > drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located at "C:\Documents > and Settings" as default when a new user account is created. > My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any file in C drive, > where the system files are located. I know how to map "My documents" > directory out of C, but I have not been successful to do so for the whole > user home directory. > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot!
Guest ares Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? "jorgen" wrote: > ares wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other than C > > drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located at "C:\Documents > > and Settings" as default when a new user account is created. > > My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any file in C drive, > > where the system files are located. I know how to map "My documents" > > directory out of C, but I have not been successful to do so for the whole > > user home directory. > > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot! > > check in the registry here: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ > SOFTWARE\ > Microsoft\ > Windows NT\ > CurrentVersion\ > ProfileList > > microsoft and google has some more in-depth information about it > Hi jorgen, Thanks for the answer. How and where do I check the registry you listed?
Guest ares Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? "AJR" wrote: > Location of a Users profile does not determine User rights and/or > privilieges. > > Use Group/Local policy settings to restrict what a User can and cannot do. > > > > "ares" <ares@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:17203AF3-35E2-414A-AB89-F5ED278D6134@microsoft.com... > > Hi all, > > > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other than C > > drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located at "C:\Documents > > and Settings" as default when a new user account is created. > > My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any file in C drive, > > where the system files are located. I know how to map "My documents" > > directory out of C, but I have not been successful to do so for the whole > > user home directory. > > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot! > > Thanks AJR, Yes, I know how to control rights/privilege for each folder and drive. But, as I said, my goal is not to allow users create/modify any file in "C" drive. As long as I put user home directory under "C", I cannot achieve this goal because I have to give a user write permission for his home directory. If I disallow, some of basic window applications do not function properly (i.e., MS office). That is why I have to mount a user home directory other than C and allow full access to it. Thanks anyway.
Guest John Wunderlich Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? =?Utf-8?B?YXJlcw==?= <ares@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:17203AF3-35E2-414A-AB89-F5ED278D6134@microsoft.com: > Hi all, > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other > than C drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located > at "C:\Documents and Settings" as default when a new user account > is created. My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any > file in C drive, where the system files are located. I know how > to map "My documents" directory out of C, but I have not been > successful to do so for the whole user home directory. > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot! Perhaps a strange place to find it, but perhaps this might help: "An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the Documents and Settings folder" <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us> HTH, John
Guest ares Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Re: How to create user home directory other than C drive? Hi John, Thanks a lot! The link you posted gavw me the exact information I was seeking. You are the man! ares "John Wunderlich" wrote: > =?Utf-8?B?YXJlcw==?= <ares@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > news:17203AF3-35E2-414A-AB89-F5ED278D6134@microsoft.com: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have been wondering how I can create a user home directory other > > than C drive. As you all know, the user home direcoty is located > > at "C:\Documents and Settings" as default when a new user account > > is created. My purpose is to disallow a new user modify/create any > > file in C drive, where the system files are located. I know how > > to map "My documents" directory out of C, but I have not been > > successful to do so for the whole user home directory. > > I will really appreciate any tiny help! Thanks a lot! > > Perhaps a strange place to find it, but perhaps this might help: > > "An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the > Documents and Settings folder" > <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us> > > > HTH, > John >
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