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by ruedac

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Good morning everyone:

I have some questions for you. This is my scenario, I have 100 Windows 2000 clients in a NT4 Domain. First off, a while back I posted a question on how I could have all my clients see the programs\printers I installed using my network I.D. someone suggested that I make this my default user profile and it did work.
However, this also copied all the drive mappings. Does anyone know of a way to take the drive mappings out of the default user profile??? Is there a folderor a key that needs to be deleted??? The reason I need to know is because I want the drive mappings to be pulled off the PDC through a bat file when the clients log in not through the Default user profile. I need the flexibility to be able to change the login script ever so often to point to new servers.

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by beermonster

When you created the new profile it also trapped, as I'm sure you know already, the drive mappings that you had at the time. The main problem with a fix that uses the default ntuser.dat is that once it's out there its out there - any additions or mods mean a new ntuser rollout, or a logon script. In preference, go for the logon script. before mapping the drives you want in your script, delete all the old mappings by using
net use * /delete /yes
if you only want to remove specific mappings, replace the * with the drive letter IE F: and add line for each drive. If you must use a new default user fix, then log on as a new user, delete the mappings, log out, then use the ntuser.dat as the new default user ntuser.dat for your new machines. This will be ok for new users, but an extra complication is people who have already logged in and have a profile. you will need to run delprof, from the reskit, which can be automated and run remotely. That will delete all of the profiles (apart from default and all users of course) on the target machines, so that everyone will get the new profile on login.

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