GPOs with current Samba 3??

[Matt Schwartz]

Unfortunately, no it is not possible.  Samba 3 only supports being a member server in an AD domain.  What you can do is create some administrative templates with poledit.exe.  This will approximate many of the features of GPOs.  After creating the administrative template, drop the file into a netlogon share.  You may want to reference the handbook.  I also recommend searching for howtos on creating custom administrative templates. 

>From: nathanieljp <nathanieljp at msn.com>
>Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 08:32:47 CDT
>To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
>Subject: GPOs with current Samba 3??

>
>Hi,
>We are currently using a Samba 3 domain controller with OpenLDAP backend for
>our network.
>We have quite a few machines (250) and laptops (100), samba is working a
>charm for domain logon and providing shared printers however, the management
>team (i work for a school) now want to restrict users access to the desktop
>and impose security restrictions. Is it possible to import the Samba 4 LDAP
>schemas into OpenLDAP? What we need is the ability to use GPOs, so is it
>possible to manually create samba shares, import the schema and add ldap
>entries to get the clients to use GPOs? I dont need all the fancy active
>directory stuff or any of microsofts tools to connect to them as i already
>have the GPOs i want to use - i just need the winxp clients to download them
>from the samba shares.
>
>Is this possible??
>The alternative, unfortunately, is to convert the network to Windows Server
>2003 which i dont want to do because of the cost and time it will take to
>setup. I would use Samba4, but its still in pre-Alpha?
>
>Any information on this will be greatly recieved,
>Thanks.
>
>Nathaniel JP
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