RE: Windows 2000 - HOMEDRIVE,HOMEPATH vs. USERPROFILE

[Conrad T. Pino]

Hi Derek,

> From: Derek Price
> 
> It sounds to me like we probably want to ignore USERPROFILE, then, and
> just use the home dir settings.

The commit characteristics of network profiles are indeed scary.

Home directory commit characteristics are common to UNIX & Windows and
seems the only choice to guarantee consistent behavior.

The patch I'm working on supports compile time configuration and I recommend
CVS Project not enable USERPROFILE support.

> How does the home directory get set to
> something other than "undefined" in your examples?

The user interface is a dialog box tab sheet common to the workstation
"Computer Management" and domain controller "Active Directory Users and
Computer" Microsoft Management Console (MMC) applications.  See the JPEG
file attachment for the workstation dialog box.

> Is there an API to
> read it from the system or must all applications rely on malleable
> environment variables for this information?

An API must exist to support the MMC applications.

I don't know if the API is public and it's querying security requirements.

Local Administrator group membership is extremely common on workstations.
Domain Administrator group membership is extremely rare.

> Cheers,

> Derek