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Server 2008 and Windows 98SE: AD set profile path and map drive

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First post, by bjwil1991

Posted on 2018-08-01, 05:20

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Haven't used a server OS in ages and today, I got Windows 98SE to connect to the Server 2008 Standard domain after altering changes in both OSes. However, I cannot find a way to make the profile folders the default when the drive is mapped instead of the profiles being on the client HDD to save space. Do I use the Group Policy Management Console for the profiles? I got it to work before back when I had Server 2008 R2 64-bit and Windows 7 Pro as the client, as well as Windows 98SE connected to Server 2003 Standard R2.

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Reply 1 of 1, by chinny22

Posted on 2018-08-03, 14:18

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Problem is Windows 2000 was the first OS to truly support Group policy, earlier OS's don't natively support it so have to jump though a few hoops.
Below lists a few ways to modify the registry, if you were doing this for lots of computers you could probably force the registry change over group policy, but for 1 or 2 I'd just do it per machine.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r4804241-Wind … ocuments-Folder

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