Re: Samba problem resolved: roaming profiles wouldn't

From: Karsten M. Self (kmself_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 05/26/04

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    Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:43:22 -0700
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Randy Orrison (randy@orrison.com) wrote:
    > Roberto Sanchez wrote:
    > >Karsten M. Self wrote:
    > >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
    > >>"LocalProfile"=dword:00000001
    > >>
    > >>My only question is this: is this key documented somewhere, and how
    > >>would one ordinarially go about getting documentation on a registry key?
    > >
    > >Probably not documented. I doubt MS would want people to know too much
    > >about the registry.
    > > [...]
    > >That is one of the reasons I laugh at people who complain about the lack
    > >of documentation for free software.
    >
    > As with most documentation, free and proprietary, it's easy to find if
    > you know in advance what you're looking for. Going to www.microsoft.com
    > and entering "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Policies LocalProfile" into the search
    > box on the front page returns two hits, different pages with the same
    > content. One is here:
    > <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/263737.asp>
    >
    > Extracting from that page:
    > | LocalProfile
    > | HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
    > | Description
    > | Only allow local user profiles.
    >
    > I'm not saying this would be easy to find if you didn't already know the
    > relevant registry key, but it is documented in the obvious place, and to
    > me it's clear what it means. I have the same problem with documentation
    > for a lot of free software: if you know what you're looking for it's a
    > lot easier to find than if you just have a problem and don't know where
    > to look for the solution.

    Following up my prior response: the Registry documentation is new to
    Win2K3 Server. I can find no similar documentation for any other
    products, including copious searches of Microsoft's site (plenty of W2K3
    results). So this is a new leaf.

    The docs are also woefully inadequate. The
    HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows tree (IIRC) pretty much tops out just
    where it starts getting interesting. This *despite* the fact that it's
    the very product under which the documentation is found.

    Old dog. Old tricks.

    Peace. 

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