Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (45 mails)

["Paul Graydon" <graydpau@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 Jun 2005 at 18:38, Matt Johnson wrote:

>
> --- Alan Loughlin <loughlina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > what I meant, was that I couldn't move active
> > directory over first because
> > of the use of group policy. If I did, I would have
> > to configure local
> > policies on the xp clients and use logon scripts to
> > enforce registry
> > settings for the user accounts, unless I used
> > mandatory profiles for the
> > users, which I don’t want to do.
>
> I second this. Unless I'm much mistaken (after some
> research into the subject a few months back) the
> options you've outlined are indeed the ones open.
>
> Unless (and I hope) Paul's about to correct us on
> this... AD is a requirement for non-local group
> policies in XP... We've gone with mandatory profiles
> for exactly this reason. Please tell me there's
> another way...
>
> Ta
>
> --
> Matt Johnson

If there is, its not one I know :-(
We use Zen on our Novell servers to push out our policy packages, which is extremely effective in
our experience.  Unless you're looking to buy Novells Open Enterprise Server, that's not an option.
To be honest, the procedure looks about the same as we're looking to undertake, and all we're doing
is mergine two college networks together.  After some debate we settled on adopting a 'softly
softly' approach over 12 months that gives us fallbacks at every stage of the process.
-----
Paul Graydon
Network Technician
Haywards Heath College
http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281
"Joy is not in things; it is in us."   Richard Wagner