Anyone using XP clients on a Samba PDC? Would it be a true statement to say that group policies (as in gpedit) only work on an Active Directory, and that secondly Active Directory is very experimental (or hard!) with Samba? Thus group policies are out? I've googled this point, and can;t find a definitive answer (or at least accounts of this vary). That being the case, I can't seem to be able to find out if NTconfig.pol in [netlogon] would apply some restrictions with XP? Or whether to do the *whole* lot with mandatory policies, which seems feasible. So... using Samba, what's the best way to enforce some client settings across 50 XP workstations with 600 users? (At the moment, I use a combination of mandatory policies and config.pol on W98 with Samba). Thanks for any samba pointers. -- Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
At 13:27 04/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Anyone using XP clients on a Samba PDC?
Yup.
(At the moment, I use a combination of mandatory policies and config.pol on W98 with Samba).
I use a similar approach with Windows XP. ntconfig.pol does indeed work with XP, and you can sort out the rest with a mandatory profile. As an aside, I am working on an out-of-the-box solution for using samba and XP in education. It supports user management via csv files and allow management via 'friendly' wrapper scripts. Whether I'll actually get as far as releasing it is another matter, but work is progressing quite nicely at the moment, All the best, Nial.
On Friday 04 Jul 2003 2:05 pm, mailinglists@admin.tregib.org.uk wrote:
At 13:27 04/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Anyone using XP clients on a Samba PDC?
Yup.
(At the moment, I use a combination of mandatory policies and config.pol on W98 with Samba).
I use a similar approach with Windows XP. ntconfig.pol does indeed work with XP, and you can sort out the rest with a mandatory profile. As an aside, I am working on an out-of-the-box solution for using samba and XP in education. It supports user management via csv files and allow management via 'friendly' wrapper scripts. Whether I'll actually get as far as releasing it is another matter, but work is progressing quite nicely at the moment,
Are there any friendly (read does not assume any prior knowledge) docs on how to set up user or group policies and policing them via Samba. We're just moving from Win9x with Winlock installed to WinXP workstations and I have no knowledge how to prevent users from breaking things. Also, I've been looking at things like roaming profiles, which I believe can be done - i.e. work similar to LTSP where your desktop appears wherever you're logged in.
All the best, Nial.
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Can I ask if each user has their own set of profile files or have you been able to prevent this happening (assuming you use a standard desktop and setting for all/groups of users? We offer a standard feature set to students on Win95/98 clients (Linux/Samba PDC) but I having difficulty doing the same for XP clients. I don't want Mb of settings files being loaded and saved at each logon. Regards John Low At 14:05 04/07/03 +0100, you wrote:
At 13:27 04/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Anyone using XP clients on a Samba PDC?
Yup.
(At the moment, I use a combination of mandatory policies and config.pol on W98 with Samba).
I use a similar approach with Windows XP. ntconfig.pol does indeed work with XP, and you can sort out the rest with a mandatory profile. As an aside, I am working on an out-of-the-box solution for using samba and XP in education. It supports user management via csv files and allow management via 'friendly' wrapper scripts. Whether I'll actually get as far as releasing it is another matter, but work is progressing quite nicely at the moment,
All the best, Nial.
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