[Samba] "Samba cannot handle GPO restrictions"

Ashish Yadav gwalashish at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 07:15:47 UTC 2016


Hi Viktor,

Please follow the below link for step by step tutorial on GPO creation and
setting up the restrictions as well,

<
http://www.tecmint.com/creating-organizational-units-and-enableing-group-policy-in-zentyal/
>


--Regards
Ashishkumar S. Yadav

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Viktor Trojanovic <viktor at troja.ch> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Today, I spent most of the day figuring out why my password policies set
> via GPO are not applied on a domain level, just to find out that this is
> not one of the many occasions where Windows is the problem but it's really
> Samba, for a change. Apparently, password policies can only be changed
> using samba-tool and not via GPO.
>
> IMO, the FAQ is not very clear here.
>
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_set_user_specific_password_policies_in_Samba4_.28e._g._on_a_OU-base.29.3F
>
> It says Samba cannot handle GPO restrictions because they are not saved in
> the SysVol volume. But what is a GPO restriction? If I google for "GPO
> restrictions", the only results I get are about "Software restrictions
> using GPO" which does not seem to be the same.
>
> Can someone therefore please explain to me what exactly these GPO
> restrictions are that Samba can't handle? I'd also appreciate if someone
> could list which other GPO I cannot set successfully using RSAT.
>
> Cheers,
> Viktor
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