Clarification on Group Policies

[John H Terpstra]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Luke Howard wrote:

Luke,

Thanks for this feedback.

- John T.

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

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org