[Samba] Changes to Folder Redirection

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Feb 3 22:06:07 UTC 2020


On 03/02/2020 21:53, Bob Wooden via samba wrote:
> So, what is the difference between "Using Group Policy Folder 
> Redirection" and "Using a Group Policy Preference"? Is it an either/or 
> and _NOT both_ scenario?
>
> Clearly the ". . . Policy Preference" is editing the registry settings 
> of each workstation with a GPO. Something the " . . . Policy Folder 
> Redirection" does not do.
>
> Is not "Using a Group Policy Preference" a newer method than the other?

Sorry, but I don't know, I do not use GPO's ;-)

You need Louis for this, what I do know is, Windows cannot create 
anything on a Linux computer, there just isn't the code to do this. This 
is what 'root preexec' does, it runs a script to create the users home 
directories.

Rowland





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