Fw: [Samba] Samba and Windows XP

[John Russell]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Russell" <apca72 at dsl.pipex.com>
To: "Patrick Bennett Hagen" <junkmail at hcs.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba and Windows XP


> This may help:
>
> There is a security check new to Windows XP (or maybe only
> Windows XP service pack 1).  It can be disabled via a group policy in
> Active Directory.  The policy is:
>
> "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User
> Profiles\Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders"
>
> ...and it should be set to "Enabled".
>
> On the XP workstation log in with an Administrator account.
>
> Click: "Start", "Run"
> Type: "mmc"
> Click: "OK"
>
> A Microsoft Management Console should appear.
> Click: File, "Add/Remove Snap-in...", "Add"
> Double-Click: "Group Policy"
> Click: "Finish", "Close"
> Click: "OK"
>
> In the "Console Root" window:
> Expand: "Local Computer Policy", "Computer Configuration",
> "Administrative Templates", "System", "User Profiles"
> Double-Click: "Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile
> Folders"
> Select: "Enabled"
> Click: OK"
>
> Close the whole console.  You do not need to save the settings (this
> refers to the console settings rather than the policies you have
> changed).
>
> Reboot.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Bennett Hagen" <junkmail at hcs.com>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:32 AM
> Subject: [Samba] Samba and Windows XP
>
>
> > I have a domain user that lacks rights to the local machine to run RPC.
> > Under a real Win2k domain, I'd assign the "Domain Users" group to the
> local
> > machine "Administrators" group so I could avoid any registry, file
system
> or
> > services rights (I don't care if they have full access to the local
> > machine).  When I do that I get an error: "Information returned from the
> > object picker for object "Domain Admins" was incomplete. The object will
> not
> > be processed"
> >
> > I cranked up the verbosity in the log files and I get nothing.
> >
> > Has anyone had and resolved the same problem?
> >
> > Any help or suggestions are appreciated.  I've search hi and lo on
Google
> (I
> > found one posting last year but he never got a reply and he hasn't
replied
> > to an email I sent him).  Also, the Samba lists don't have anything as
far
> > as I can tell...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
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