samba - Nov 2005 - NTConfig.POL not working for Win 2000 (for XP working fine)?

I'm just exploring the Profile Editor, described on 
http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html - and policies saved to 
NTConfig.pol file and copied to the netlogon share work great for 
Windows XP machines.

However, with Windows 2000, they don't work at all. Winh XP machines - 
policies are applied.

I see in Samba logs that the NTConfig.pol is copied from the server to 
the w2k workstation, but it has no effect.

This Profile Editor is designed for Windows 2000, as it was shipped with 
w2k SP4, so I expected it will work with 2000.

Am I missing something?




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WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> I'm just exploring the Profile Editor, described on 
> http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html - and policies saved to 
> NTConfig.pol file and copied to the netlogon share work great for 
> Windows XP machines.
> 
> However, with Windows 2000, they don't work at all. Winh XP machines - 
> policies are applied.
> 
> I see in Samba logs that the NTConfig.pol is copied from the server to 
> the w2k workstation, but it has no effect.
> 
> This Profile Editor is designed for Windows 2000, as it was shipped with 
> w2k SP4, so I expected it will work with 2000.
> 
> Am I missing something?
I searched the internet, but no clue about the issue :(

In the event log it is as eventid: 1000, source: uservenv, and in the 
log itself it says something like (translated from German):

RegLoadKey aborted. Returned value "False Parameter." for C:\Documents
and Settings\Administrator.DOMAIN\prfCA.tmp

prfCA.tmp (and other such tmp files) are the exact copy of the 
NTConfig.POL that is saved in the netlogon directory.

I tried creating other NTConfig.POL files (with only basic setting like 
IE start site), but this message just shows all the time, and settings 
are not applied.

Any clue?

I use Windows 2000 SP4, and Samba 3.0.20.

Windows XP works fine with NTConfig.POL files and the same Samba.


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Tomek
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba