[Samba 4] Access to GPO failed

[Kenneth MacDonald]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:37 +0700, Son Nguyen wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I've just finished testing this feature this morning with new version.
> version.h: 
> #define SAMBA_VERSION_GIT_COMMIT_DATE "Sun Dec 7 21:30:36 2008 +0100"
> #define SAMBA_VERSION_STRING "4.0.0alpha6-GIT-e3eb94e"
>  
> Running samba in single mode. Command start:
> 
>     * samba -i -M single
>     * samba -M single
> 
>  In these two cases, Windows client can join domain success but cannot 
> access Group Policy Editor from dsa.msc.
> 
>     * The error message in client is the same as the older:
>           o Fail to open the Group Policy Object. You may not have
>             appropriate rights.
>             Details:
>             The network path was not found.
>     *  From windows client, I can access to the //dc.domain/sysvol success
>     * The below is smb.log when I run samba in debug level 10
>       (samba -M single -d 10)
> 
> Do you have any ideas for me to pass this step. I really want to test 
> domain policy but I stuck in this step for more than 2 weeks.

Can you access //dc.domain/sysvol/Policies ?  Can you create directories
in there?

When you create a GPO, the GPT (Group Policy Template) is created
in //dc.domain/sysvol/Policies/{GUID-OF-GPO}/

Cheers,

Kenny.


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