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

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu
Sat Sep 25 18:05:17 GMT 2004


John H Terpstra írta:

>On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:09, Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
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>>>Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:55, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>Firts, Poledit for w2k supports more templates than poledit for NT4.
>>Despite they have the same look.
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>>Second, several templates will work _only_ under AD domains.
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>>Third, w2k and XP do support nt4-like domain policies created with
>>poledit.
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>See http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf chapter 6.
>There is an example of how to configure a desktop profile with all policies 
>enabled in a manner fully compatible with XPP and 2KP.
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>- John T.
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>>>>Andrew Bartlett
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Another solution, maybe too drastic would be
veto files = .*
in your home share definition.

Cheers,

Geza Gemes


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