[Samba] ntconfig.pol (was w2k sp2 + ntconfig.pol)

[Torsten Curdt]

I cannot believe it! You are right! 8-))

I've chosen a new machine to join the domain and the policy got applied!

...once! Exactly a single time!

Although we now have greyed out the setting the policy does not get applied 
again... do know how we can force that?

Thanks so much for this "stupid question" ;-))
--
Torsten

On Wednesday 26 June 2002 17:23, Con Harte wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but
> have you modified the setting in the policy for the
> "Automatic update", etc.?
>
> It may be called something slightly different in Win2k
> poledit, I have to cater mostly for NT4 so I try to keep
> to the lowest common denominator...
>
> If you have unchecked the AutoUpdate path then you will
> have to check it, and once each PC has downloaded this policy,
> you can revert that option in the policy to be ignored (i.e.
> you can leave the checkbox greyed out).
>
> Hope that helps.
> Con.
>
> At 14:31 26/06/02, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday 26 June 2002 15:17, Chris Smith wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 05:23, Torsten Curdt wrote:
> > > > Why is one user applying this policy
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 mmelas   dff         16384 Jun 26 10:36 ntconfig.pol
> > > > while others don't. It's on the same machine!!
> > >
> > > What are the permissions on the netlogon folder, where the .pol
> > > resides, itself? I've seen some oddities where the directory
> > > permissions can block access. Try setting that directory to 755 as
> > > well.
> >
> >permissions are even 775
> >
> >I even now found the same behaviour on a totally different machine!
> >
> >machine1:  w2k sp2
> >   user1 -> policies applied
> >   user2..n -> policies don't get applied
> >
> >machine1:  w2k sp1
> >   user1 -> policies applied
> >   user2..n -> policies don't get applied
> >
> >tried all different kinds of upper/lowercase combinations for ntconfig.pol
> >and
> >have it now owned by root.
> >
> >I really don't have a clue... it would be cool to have an access.log for
> >samba
> >so I could see what exactly get requested (if something get requested at
> > all)
> >
> >...setting debug to 3 isn't really the same. But I'll try that again
> > anyway --
> >Torsten
> >
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