[Samba] W2K Workstation not reading NTConfig.pol

[Ilia Chipitsine]

>
> --- Ilia Chipitsine <ilia at paramon.ru> escribi?:
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>>> I have recently set up an small SAMBA network(just
>> my
>>> server and a W2K SP4 Workstation). My Server is
>> acting
>>> as a PDC. Everything seems to work flawlessly,
>> users,
>>> roaming profiles, netlogon script, etc... But I
>> cannot
>>> make this machine to read my NTConfig.pol file.
>>>
>>> I have it at my NETLOGON share [/srv/netlogon]
>> with
>>> rwxr-xr-x permissions. I have tried with different
>>> filenames (NTConfig.POL, ntconfig.pol, etc...) but
>>> none seems to work.
>>
>> just few ideas:
>>
>> 1) try turn on audit on that share (audit is special
>> module for samba,
>> it does not have all the features Windows audit has,
>> but samba will log
>> read events), audit is described very well in Samba
>> Official Howto
>>
>
> I have found that my Workstation doesn't even try to
> read the file NTConfig.pol. It just opens the logon
> batch file.
>
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>
>
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>> 2) look at "Settings --> Control Panel -->
>> Administration --> Events"
>> on a workstation (if You are lucky, You can try to
>> find checked/debug
>> build of userenv.dll, which handles policies and
>> profiles. I was never
>> lucky)
>
> I couldn't find anything here.

yeah!!!!!!!

just tried to find anything on microsoft.com on this subject ...

article ID 221833 "How to enable user environment debug logging in retail 
build of Windows"

I've no idea why some of workstations read policy and other reject it.
(I assume all of them are configured in the same way ?)

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>
> Thanks.
>
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>
>
>>>
>>> I have tried to setup ntconfig.pol with poledit to
>>> just one user (root) and one machine("ibm") or to
>>> default user and default machine. but nothing
>> changes.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> My server is a DELL POWEREDGE SC1420 running
>> CENTOS
>>> 4.1 x86-64. The client is an IBM Aptiva running
>> W2K
>>> SP4.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and excuse my poor English.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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