[Samba] getting started with GPOs

[Jeff Dickens]

Now after a second attempt to log in under the account with redirection on
Windows 8.1 I get "The Group Policy Client service failed the sign-in."
 "The universal unique identifyer (UUID) type is not supported."

Yeah.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com> wrote:

> Ok, I have some results.
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Robert Watson <robert at gillecaluim.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't have a solution other than creating gpo on a win7 client.  I got
>> the same issue with a win 10 clients
>> On Nov 23, 2015 3:30 PM, "Jeff Dickens" <jeff at seamanpaper.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Running the sernet distribution of Samba 4.2 on Ubuntu 14 LTS.
>>>
>>> I have a DC and a Member Server and I have a Windows 8.1 workstation on
>>> which I can log in and get a drive mapped to a share on the Member
>>> Server.
>>>
>>> I want to try setting up a GPO.  The goal is to redirect the documents
>>> folder on windows workstations to a network share.
>>>
>>> So I start the Group Policy Management tool on my windows 8.1
>>> workstation,
>>> which is logged into the domain as Administrator.
>>>
>>> I see "A Processing error occurred collecting data using this base domain
>>> controller. Please change the base domain controller and try again."  I
>>> click a few more things and then I get "​​Permissions for this GPO in the
>>> SYSVOL folder are inconsistent with those in Active Directory"  I click
>>> ok
>>> and it apparently does nothing.
>>>
>>> On the Samba side the only thing I see in the logs are some complaints
>>> about not being able to load the printer list.
>>>
>>> Is this expected to work?   How can I start to troubleshoot this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
> ​It (Group Policy Management) does work on Windows 7, and not on Windows
> 8.1.
>
> After putting in the folder redirection thing in the group policy I first
> got this in the event log on the Windows 7 box:
>
> The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file
> \\iol.seamanpaper.com\sysvol\iol.seamanpaper.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini
> from a domain controller and was not successful. Group Policy settings may
> not be applied until this event is resolved. This issue may be transient
> and could be caused by one or more of the following:
>
> a) Name Resolution/Network Connectivity to the current domain controller.
>
> b) File Replication Service Latency (a file created on another domain
> controller has not replicated to the current domain controller).
> c) The Distributed File System (DFS) client has been disabled.
>
> But after running samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset it works, or at least it
> does on Windows 7 !
>
> On Windows 8.1 after rebooting the client I get an event log entry that
> says
>
> Successfully applied policy and redirected folder "Documents" to
> "\\florence\home\test1\".  Redirection options=0x1211.
>
> But it doesn't really work.. the "Documents" "Library" has silently
> vanished from the Windows 8.1 system.  Why would that be?
>
>
>
>
> ​
>
>
> --
> *     Jeff Dickens*
>      IT Manager      978-632-1513
>
>


-- 
*     Jeff Dickens*
     IT Manager      978-632-1513