[Samba] getting started with GPOs

[Jeff Dickens]

found this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2976660  might try it

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com> wrote:

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