[Samba] Group Policy on Samba - is it possible?

[Ilia Chipitsine]

> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:55, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to use Group Policies in Samba (or Samba + OpenLDAP etc.)?
>>> 
>>> I want to replace Active Directory with Samba (and possibly some other 
>>> tools like OpenLDAP), and Group Policy is a feature I need to have.
>> 
>> 
>> Not available at this time - it requires tight integration with Active
>> Directory, and that's a Samba4 issue.  NT4 system policies are the best
>> you can hope for with Samba 3.0.
>
> Do Win2K and XP obey the policy files? I found several ADM templates that for 
> Windows 2K and XP but poledit does not read them.

Firts, Poledit for w2k supports more templates than poledit for NT4. 
Despite they have the same look.

Second, several templates will work _only_ under AD domains.

Third, w2k and XP do support nt4-like domain policies created with 
poledit.

>
>> 
>> Andrew Bartlett
>> 
>
> -- 
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>