On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:53, Lasse Riis wrote:
Well, a rather odd subject, but I couldn't really express it differently.
I would simply like to know if the active directory "emulation" of samba+openLDAP+kerberos or samba 3.0 includes support for policies.
I have a bunch of XP clients that I need to set some restrictions on. But it seems the days of config.pol files are over, so i need active directory support on my PDC. Having read several articles on active directory, I still don't understand it fully, but articles about setting up active directory on a samba pdc mentioned only partial support for active directory(only some features supported).
So before I start crashing our server with software and configuration, I would like to know if (group)policies are supported by active directory on samba. If this is the case, I'd also like to hear if anybody has a working setup of it, and maybe some links (I couldn't finde any) to howtos....
We don't yet have an Active Directory PDC (it is much more than samba+openLDAP+kerberos - we need them all working with each other :-).
That said, we are often confused for an active directory PDC by the
clients - they often 'fall back' in parts of the protocol. It may well
be possible to create such policies - In the end, they are just a file
in a particular file share.
The workaround that I am using to solve this problem is done on each client but it works. I built the group policy settings I wanted on one of the machines which is stored on the client machines under <windows>\System32\GroupPolicy. I made a copy of that directory and then copy it onto the client machines that need the group policy settings at build time. A bit of a kludge, but it works like a charm.
Nathan
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