[Group Policy] Creating a domain policy or copying a local one.

[Steve Williams]

Hi all!

I have set up a domain running Samba as a PDC with four clients running
Windows XP. I have read several documents over the Internet on domain
policies all of which seem to require an "Active Directory" - something
which samba cannot currently offer.

I was wondering if there is a tool which can be used to create a domain
policy which I could store on my file server that could automatically be
applied to the client machines.

Basically, I would just like the windows xp machines to access and apply a
domain policy found at, for example \\myserver\netlogon\domainpolicy every
time it boots.

If I cannot create and store a domain policy, then perhaps it is possible to
configure the computers to copy \\myserver\netlogon\localpolicy to c:
\windows\grouppolicy every time it boots.

Thanks for any help!

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Think of Samba as NT 4 in this regard, and NT 4 can you the=20
old System Policies (poledit.exe) but not Group Policy.
The tool you are after is Windows Server. System Policies=20
are very, very limited compared to Group Policy.

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[Lord Steve]

On 13 May 2003, "Roger Abell [MVP]" > enlightened
microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin with this gem:

> Think of Samba as NT 4 in this regard, and NT 4 can you the
> old System Policies (poledit.exe) but not Group Policy.
> The tool you are after is Windows Server. System Policies
> are very, very limited compared to Group Policy.

So perhaps I can configure Windows XP to download it's security policy from
a network share, like with the old poledit.exe you could tell it to download
the policy from a network share on startup.