2013-02-10, 13:12
I have a question about advancedsettings.xml inheritance with user profiles in Win 7 x64.
According to http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...ttings.xml, "may be created by a user in their "/userdata/" folder". So, it goes in the /userdata/folder.
In this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ttings.xml it says that with user profiles, the advancedsettings.xml file goes in each XBMC users' folder, such as userdata\profiles\User1, userdata\profiles\User2 and userdata\profiles\User3.
The user profiles wiki doesn't help either way: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=profiles, though it does say that "All options stored in the userdata folder can be customized per profile, allowing for an amazing amount of flexibility".
So, my question is: do the settings inside a userdata\advancedsettings.xml, override those in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml? Or is it the other way round, as in conflicting entries in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml take precedence over those in userdata\advancedsettings.xml (like MS AD GPO processing for example)? Or maybe if both files exist, one is completely ignored? (That is, it's not granular down to the settings level, just the file level.) I'm hoping that it supports granular inheritance (like GPOs) so that a setting in the userdata\advancedsettings.xml file will apply to all profiles unless there is an override of it in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml. I've done a search and can't see a clear statement either way.
Anyone know? (Yes, I could run a series of experiments to find out, but before embarking on that, I thought I'd ask.)
TIA
m
According to http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...ttings.xml, "may be created by a user in their "/userdata/" folder". So, it goes in the /userdata/folder.
In this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ttings.xml it says that with user profiles, the advancedsettings.xml file goes in each XBMC users' folder, such as userdata\profiles\User1, userdata\profiles\User2 and userdata\profiles\User3.
The user profiles wiki doesn't help either way: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=profiles, though it does say that "All options stored in the userdata folder can be customized per profile, allowing for an amazing amount of flexibility".
So, my question is: do the settings inside a userdata\advancedsettings.xml, override those in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml? Or is it the other way round, as in conflicting entries in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml take precedence over those in userdata\advancedsettings.xml (like MS AD GPO processing for example)? Or maybe if both files exist, one is completely ignored? (That is, it's not granular down to the settings level, just the file level.) I'm hoping that it supports granular inheritance (like GPOs) so that a setting in the userdata\advancedsettings.xml file will apply to all profiles unless there is an override of it in userdata\profiles\User1\advancedsettings.xml. I've done a search and can't see a clear statement either way.
Anyone know? (Yes, I could run a series of experiments to find out, but before embarking on that, I thought I'd ask.)
TIA
m