[vox-tech] windows question (samba related)

[Ken Bloom]

> ---- ORIGINAL MESSAGE ----
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:15:05 -0800
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> From: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
> Subject: [vox-tech] windows question (samba related)
> Reply-To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> 
> when a win98 machine has 2 users on it, where do the different desktops
> reside on disk?
> 
> i'm asking because i used smbclient (as user p on satan) to connect to
> a windows machine that has accounts for both rhonda and i:
> 
> p@satan% smbclient //navalle/C
> added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Password: 
> smb: \> cd windows/desktop
> 
> and i'm looking at rhonda's desktop, not mine (which have different
> files).
> 
> do different desktops have different file locations?  is there a way to
> specify to smbclient which one i want?

THE SYSTEMS I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:

Under Windows 95, and Windows 98, you can find the per-user desktops in 
c:\windows\profiles\username\desktop. The desktop that you get when you hit cancel instead of 
logging in locally to a windows machine is at c:\windows\desktop

Under Windows 2000, the per-user desktops are in "c:\documents and 
settings\username\desktop\". There is a default user in "c:\documents and settings\default 
user\desktop" but I believe this may just be the user who is a template for any new users 
created, considering that Windows 2000 is far more keen on usernames than Windows 98 or 95.

THE SYSTEMS I DO NOT HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:
I believe that Windows NT 4.0 uses the same style as Windows 95 and 98.
I suspect that Windows XP uses the same style as Windows 2000.
I have no idea about Windows ME, so look for yourself.

I just told you where the locations are, your milage may vary - on upgraded systems 
(particularly XP) if you don't find it in one place, you may find it in the other.