Clarification on Group Policies

[Luke Howard]

>With Samba and in the absence of Active Directory it is NOT possible to
>create Group Policy Objects for users and machines.

You could potentially host the filesystem component of a GPO on a SAMBA
server by modifying the gPCFileSysPath atribute of the GPO entry in AD.

eg:

monk:/sunra/Users/lukeh# ldapsearch -LLL -x objectclass=groupPolicyContainer GpcFileSysPath
dn: cn={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},cn=Policies,cn=System,dc=off,dc=
 padl,dc=com
gPCFileSysPath: \\off.padl.com\sysvol\off.padl.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D
 2-945F-00C04FB984F9}

You could change \\off.padl.com to \\samba-server.off.padl.com, where
samba-server is a member of the AD domain.

cheers,

-- Luke

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Luke Howard | PADL Software Pty Ltd | www.padl.com