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by matt5968

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I have a small windows network. I have w2k server with active directory. and several win 98 me an w2k clients. I want to be able to have all clients automatically be saving an files created by any of their applications to a directories on the win 2kserver. I had created a folder on the server then all mapped to it. Then for each app I created a short cut on each desktop and then in the Start In field I typed in the mapped \\server\sharename. But it did not work. any help would be grateful..thanks

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Changing the Start-in field (as you've seen) wont do it... It depends on the application itself, but most allow the user to specify where they save to.

There may well be registry entries for each application specifying the location of the initial "save-to" dialog box. You could change these on the PCs. That would be a start...

I'd also be creating home folders on the server. This will also help with some well behaved applications defaulting to there...

The home folder is a property of the domain account for each user... I assume they're logging into the domain...

Cheers,
Tim.

by thechas

As Tim said, the start in box only works for some applications.
Editing the registry should take care of it, but you would have to do it program by program.

You should be able to go into each program and set the default file folder to the network folder you want them to use. This will then be the default location where documents are retrieved from and saved to for the application.

But, even this doesn't work for all programs, as some default to the My Documents folder.

What you need is a script to re-address the my documents folder from the c drive to the network drive.

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