Storing Documents And Settings on a mounted drive

[Guest gambool]

Although I've seen many threads describing how to move the D&S, I

couldnt find anything on the following. I want to mount a new drive

as C:\Documents And Settings. So effectively not change the setings

for D&S, just store it on a mount. Can this be done easily? (How

would it be done while the folder is in use?).

 

Many thanks.

 

Red.

[Guest Andrew Lomakin]

Re: Storing Documents And Settings on a mounted drive

 

Hello Red,

 

I don't think that you will be able to do so, because documents and settings

are being accessed by system even before you try to logon, and before

network drives are being mounted. Taking in account, that profile contains

some critical information like registry, i wouldnt' trust it to a network

connections.

You can redirect your "My documents", "desktop" etc folders to a network

location with no problems though.

 

Regartds,

 

Andrew

 

 

"gambool" <google@gambool.com> wrote in message

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> Although I've seen many threads describing how to move the D&S, I

> couldnt find anything on the following. I want to mount a new drive

> as C:\Documents And Settings. So effectively not change the setings

> for D&S, just store it on a mount. Can this be done easily? (How

> would it be done while the folder is in use?).

>

> Many thanks.

>

> Red.

[Guest gambool]

Re: Storing Documents And Settings on a mounted drive

 

On 17 Mar, 11:21, "Andrew Lomakin" <loma...@one.lv> wrote:

> Hello Red,

>

> I don't think that you will be able to do so, because documents and settings

> are being accessed by system even before you try to logon, and before

> network drives are being mounted. Taking in account, that profile contains

> some critical information like registry, i wouldnt' trust it to a network

> connections.

> You can redirect your "My documents", "desktop" etc folders to a network

> location with no problems though.

>

> Regartds,

>

> Andrew

>

 

Its a drive inside the same box. Also, Its the whole of D&S that I

need mounting (for reasons beyond this thread), therefore moving my

documents etc will not suffice. I was hoping that moving it to a

mount would be a lot more straightforward than moving it to another

location entirely. I live in hope!

 

red.

[Guest Andrew Lomakin]

Re: Storing Documents And Settings on a mounted drive

 

Well, as i said previously

Moving to a network mounted drive is not possible, because the server and

workstation services startup a bit later, than `system` tries to access it's

profile (yes, system account has a profile as well), so if the drive is not

available, system service is screwed.

 

If you want to relocate profiles permanently, you could start playing NTFS

tricks like mountpoints etc, and then relocate profile to a mountpoint, but

moving to a network share (even if it's a local machine) is not possible.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Andrew

 

 

"gambool" <google@gambool.com> wrote in message

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> On 17 Mar, 11:21, "Andrew Lomakin" <loma...@one.lv> wrote:

>> Hello Red,

>>

>> I don't think that you will be able to do so, because documents and

>> settings

>> are being accessed by system even before you try to logon, and before

>> network drives are being mounted. Taking in account, that profile

>> contains

>> some critical information like registry, i wouldnt' trust it to a network

>> connections.

>> You can redirect your "My documents", "desktop" etc folders to a network

>> location with no problems though.

>>

>> Regartds,

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>

> Its a drive inside the same box. Also, Its the whole of D&S that I

> need mounting (for reasons beyond this thread), therefore moving my

> documents etc will not suffice. I was hoping that moving it to a

> mount would be a lot more straightforward than moving it to another

> location entirely. I live in hope!

>

> red.

>