Re: Legal Notice Text being truncated.

From: George (george.e.sullivan_at_saic.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: 11 Nov 2004 13:39:31 -0800

Thanks for the tip. I disabled the warning banner and text message on
the server and am just installing locally.
Thanks

"Cleve S." <tropchev@NOSPAMbellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<eSMSvwewEHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> George,
>
> See KB823146, Windows 2000 Clients Do Not Correctly Display Logon Banners
> That Are Created in a Windows Server 2003 Policy. I have a small network so
> I ended up writing the text directly to the workstation's registry when
> initially configured.
>
> Cleve S.
>
> "George" <george.e.sullivan@saic.com> wrote in message
> news:2913a3e7.0411030902.af4f577@posting.google.com...
> > Server 2003 is truncating my legal notice. I place the exact same
> > notice in the Domain Security and Controller Security policy. I have
> > even gone to the registry and pasted it in the legalnoticetext string
> > value. After I set it, I can log out and it looks ok. Then when I
> > log back in and look in the Policy fields for Domain and Controller it
> > has been truncated again. Another weird thing is when the banner is
> > displayed on the monitor it will look ok for a while and then some
> > sort of policy refresh must occur. I can come back in about 10
> > minutes and it has switched to the truncated version. I noticed in
> > the registry a new type called Extended String Value. I tried to set
> > legalnoticetext as one of those, but then the banner disappeared all
> > together. Any tricks on making the banner not truncate? Clients that
> > reboot are even worse. My clients are Workstation 2000. They get
> > about one line. When I look at the registry for them the banner is all
> > there, but it has been converted to a bunch of lines as if there is a
> > newline character at the end of each. I have tried manually typing in
> > the banner text on the clients in the legalnoticetext value, but when
> > the domain policy is applied at reboot it wipes my typing out.
> >
> > Reg value is at, note I am abbreviating the actual registry key names:
> > local machine/softw/microsoft/win/CurVer/polices.
> >
> > Thanks for all you time and help.

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