[Ethereal-users] User profile dir on versions of Win 9x

["Kornmueller, Thomas" <Thomas.Kornmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:01:16AM +0000, Jack Spaar wrote:

> I'm using Win98, and do have an Application Data
> dir under \Windows\Profiles\<user name>. 
> Not sure why ethereal didn't find it Guy.
 
>> Guy Harris wrote: 
>> What happens if you start up an MS-DOS prompt window and type the "set"
command? 
>> What does it report?
 
In my environment, I have installed ethereal on a portable PC (Win 95b).
Normally it's part of a microsoft domain 
and sometimes, especially for measurements, it's running stand-alone.

In the same way it has an Application Data dir under
c:\Windows\Profiles\<user name>, which couldn't be found by
ethereal. As I noticed, it is obvious that this directory path was not
created by the OS, but by another 
application: There is no environment variable USERPROFILE, which specifies
this user profile dir.

On versions of Win 9x/Me  you don't need to have user profiles or user
profile directrories.
All users may share the same configuration. Even if the machine is part of a
network and
the user(s) join(s) a microsoft workgroup or domain, there is no personal
local user dir required.

Users accessing a microsoft domain, usually have a user dir, specified
inside the users domain profile.
For Win 9x, as far as I know, there is the possibility to 'export' the
environment configuration - set
by the domain logon-script - to the local OS.

I don't know if there is 'the one and only' user profile dir for all
versions of windows as part of a domain and
stand-alone as well. Personally I suppose, that ethereal is not necessarily
a multi-user, network shared application.

- Thomas Kornmüller