Group Policy for Win98 Client

[mcracco]

I have a Win2000 Server and a bunch of Windows 98 clients. I have successfully created a CONFIG.POL file in the NETLOGON folder on the server using Policy Editor on a Win 98 machine. The tweaks make to Default User and Default Computer are saved to CONFIG.POL are read by the clients and the changes copied are to the local registry.

Now I want to take it one step further and restrict the desktop of specific users. Back I go into Policy Editor and I add a new user 'JSmith' for the domain user. The modified CONFIG.POL with Default User, Default Computer, and now JSmith is saved in the same location on the server. The system is supposed to read the Default entities first then overwrite the configuration with JSmith but I don't see any updates. I have also tried to add a new group in Policy Editor named 'Restricted Users' then created the same group on the server and made JSmith a member of it but still no-go.

What am I missing? Thanks.

 

[yizhar]

HI.

Win9x by default supports only the Computer settings, not User settings.
To support User settings, the workstation must be configured with user profiles (Control Panel - Passwords).

Read the Win98 resource kit help file (found on the Win98 setup cdrom) and you'll find more info.



Yizhar Hurwitz

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar

 

[mcracco]

Got it. That's pretty close yizhar, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

In Password Properties / User Profiles you do need to have selected 'Windows switches to your personal settings when you log on'. But this setting is overriden by config.pol in Default Computer / Win98 System / Enable User Profiles. Once checked the profile for the user I added will copy down just fine.

Thanks again for the help.