[Wolves] Setting Windows 2k to use a network disk for data

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 12:31:39 GMT 2006


On 05/01/06, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Mark Ellse wrote:
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> > Anyone know how to set up Win2k to use a separate hard drive for all the
> > Documents and Settings contents? Have done a web search and the only thing I
> > can find is how to store on a Windows 2000 server - which I don't want to do.
> >
> > What I really want to store on is SME server which is a doddle to set up and
> > has support for RAID.
> >
> > Any suggestions gratefully received.
> >
> > Mark
>
> 1/ create a directory on the SME server under the user's home
> directory called "My-Documents" (or what ever you want to call it).
>
> 2/ on the Windows system, while logged in as the user, right-click on
> "My Documents", down to "Properties" and left-click.
>
> 3/ Now click on the "Move" button and browse to the SME server, find the
> folder you created in 1 above and click "OK".  Windows should now move all
> the user's documents from the workstation to the server.
>
> 4/ Repeat step 1 for each user on the network.
>
> 5/ Repeat steps 2 & 3 for each user on each workstation. (Ade will bring
> up Group Policies here as this would allows you to do this just once on
> the Windows server)
>
> HTH
>

The really easy way is to install Tweak UI as Admin.  It is about 2 or
3 clicks and it's done.
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