[Samba] How Can I create a group policies with Samba?

[Jason Long]

I mean is that If we have 2000 Linux clients with Red Hat or CentOS server and want to write a policy for Clients that a network location mapped automatically on them, What should we do? 


     On Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:42 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 Not sure if you are asking about server or client.  Are you asking about :   
   - Pushing GPOs via Linux SaMBa Server to Windows machines?   

   
   - i believe this has been somewhat doable for years using a windows workstation mmc pointed at a Samba Server.  
   
   - Pushing GPOs via Linux SaMBa Server to Linux machines?
   
   - At least four years ago, LikeWise.com had some very limited GPO support for Linux clients.   


Other options to research would be "Desired State Configuration" and or otherwise move to a devops flavor of configuration management.  MS AD GPOs are in XML and should to some extent be parseable by anything.  


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:42 AM Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:

Hello Jason

Am 06.06.2015 um 19:24 schrieb Jason Long:
> Hello Experts.Can I implement any group policy via Samba in Linux?
> For example, In Windows OS you can write a Group policy for disable
> specific application or hide partitions and when the user
> logging into the PC the Policy execute on his system
> automatically, But how about Linux?

There's nothing on *nix interpreting GPOs.

I think it would be a great project, but not that easy to implement. It
need interfaces to different services like pam for passwort and login
management, write/edit config files (global and per user), etc.


Regards,
Marc
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