Policy file

[acidbrain]

Hi there,
I'm having problems setting up policies. I've read many documentations, followed every step but when a PC logs on to the network it doesn't read it's policy file. Wondering what did i do wrong. First of all i created a policy file on a PC, named it config.pol and put that file in /home/samba/netlogon. Still no use. I named that config.pol after the PC's name, still no use.
I've noticed something else: when i make that policy file on the PC using poledit, the policy is implemented on the workstation and that's not what i really want. I would like to make every workstation to have a policy file and when they log on they should take their policy file from my netlogon directory and run it. Where did i do wrong or what else should i make to achieve my goal?
Thanks alot.

 

[markstangroom]

i've been implementing the same thing and have discovered that you need to call the policy NTConfig.POL for anything above win98/me clients.

you then need to save the policy in root of your samba/netlogon share, make suse permissions are 755 so that users can only read the policy not write to it.

you cannot place the NTConfig.POL file in a directory within the netlogon share this doesn't work. this means you can only have one policy for all you pc's.

Good luck!
Mark

 

[acidbrain]

Thanks for the tip but it's still not enough, i mean that i have 35 PC's in the LAN and i want to put in my netlogon share a policy file for each machine. I'ts quite hard to emplement the same rules for the the whole network. The thing is that i have not defined any groups,yet so i can use a single policy per group. That's why i need policies for each machine separately and here i've got stuck
Ahy tips?
Thanks alot.

 

[acidbrain]

Thanks for the tip but it's still not enough, i mean that i have 35 PC's in the LAN and i want to put in my netlogon share a policy file for each machine. I'ts quite hard to emplement the same rules for the the whole network. The thing is that i have not defined any groups,yet so i can use a single policy per group. That's why i need policies for each machine separately and here i've got stuck
Any tips?
Thanks alot.

 

[acidbrain]

Hi there.
Finally i made it. I defined some groups and then i used poledit, added those groups then added the users and edited each user's policy (rights). For those who are new to this i have to tell that there's a single policy named config.pol that contains all groups and users. This config.pol you need to put it in your /netlogon directory. For NT/Win200 users there's another policy named NTConfig.pol like said above.
Thanks alot for your help.