Registry Keep Changing

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Ben Blackmore

Hi,

I have 6 PCs, with different users, but using the same profile. They logon
to an AS400 session, using a standard user id, when I initially set the
software up, I logged on to the AS400 using my admin id to test the
connection. I then cloned the 5 other PCs, from the master (using drive copy
4), once cloned I gave them new computer names, and put the users on.
However now when the users logon to the AS400 the logon pops up, but with
the admin id, rather than their ids! There is a registry setting in the
following 2 keys, that holds the user id.

HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Client Access Express\CurrentVersion\AS400
Operations Navigator\Application_Administration\HostVals\SERVER\<USERID>

HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Client Access
Express\CurrentVersion\Environments\My AS/400
Connections\SERVER\Communication
USer ID Reg_Sz <user id>

Both these keys I have changed to the users individual id, logged off,
restarted, but when I log back on, the key has changed back to admin id! How
do I stop this?

The users have administrator privileges locally, and are logging onto our
domain!

Any ideas?

Ben
 
It's hard to say since the regkeys are from a 3rd party app. Maybe the app
that you are using runs some ini file that is doing it. I would suggest
that you download regmon.exe from sysinternals.com. Run it and then try to
start the app. Review the regmon log and that will tel you what processes
is touching or editing the regkeys.

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I'm pretty sure its not the 3rd party app, if I change the registry, then
open the program its ok, I can shut the program and open it again and again
and its fine, but if I log off then on again the registry is back to what it
was before I changed it. Could it be the profile is storing a registry
setting, so as its mandatory, the profile is copying the registry entry
back?

Ben
 
If you are using mandatory profiles, any changes made while logged on will
not be saved. When you logon again the mandatory profile will load with the
settings that have been saved in the profile when it was created. Are you
using mandatory profiles?

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Yeah, I think I've sorted it now, I've setup an AS400 logon script that runs
in start up, this by passes the need for the settings in the registry! I
needed all 6 machines to logon with different usernames & passwords, but as
they were all using the same mandatory profile it wasn't possible. So now
shortcut in the start menu points to a batch file located on the c: of each
PC, which then has the individual logon details.

Thanks for the help

Ben
 
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