samba - Dec 2003 - group policies, domain policies and workstation policies without Active Directory??

I have the following situation: a network with 30 Windows NT Server on
different sites, 800 clients with Windows XP; I want to migrate to Samba
instead of Windows 2003 Server, but I have the effort to manage group
policies, domain policies and workstation policies on the XP Clients;

is there a way to solve this without Active Directory e.g. Samba with
LDAP??

Michael Ruzek

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Michael_Ruzek@log.at ?rta:
| I have the following situation: a network with 30 Windows NT Server on
| different sites, 800 clients with Windows XP; I want to migrate to Samba
| instead of Windows 2003 Server, but I have the effort to manage group
| policies, domain policies and workstation policies on the XP Clients;
|
| is there a way to solve this without Active Directory e.g. Samba with
| LDAP??
|
| Michael Ruzek
|
|
|
You can have NTConfig.POL based policies (we have had such a config here
from as early as samba 2.2.5), just like with NT4 Server, but no GPO
policies, which relies on Active Directory.


Good Luck!

Geza Gemes
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Michael_Ruzek@log.at wrote:
> I have the following situation: a network with 30 Windows NT Server on
> different sites, 800 clients with Windows XP; I want to migrate to Samba
> instead of Windows 2003 Server, but I have the effort to manage group
> policies, domain policies and workstation policies on the XP Clients;
> 
> is there a way to solve this without Active Directory e.g. Samba with
> LDAP??
Do you really want to apply the XP registry hack to 800 clients? Although, it
may no
longer be necessary if you're using 3.0. Does anyone know?

-- 
Andrew Gaffney