Scott Goodwin
2013-Nov-14 00:14 UTC
[Samba] Group Policy error 1058 / UNC path to GPO is same as domain name
My Group Policies are not working because clients are attempting to use the path: \\example.com\SysVol\example.com\Policies\yada\yada\gpt.ini But here's the crux: I have to set an A record for example.com to point to our externally hosted web site. So, understandably, the client is trying to reach our web site for GPO, which of course, will not succeed. So, I know the root of the problem here, but I'm not sure how to resolve it. Looks like MS OS's after Windows 2000 use DNS, then NetBIOS resolution, so even if I have netbios resolution pointing to our Samba server, DNS would still kick in first. (I'm not even sure how to do netbios resolution in a samba environment, but I'll do some googling of my own there). Is there a way to override this? This has to be a somewhat common occurrence, so there's got to be an easy workaround... Thanks for any pointers. My environment: Windows 7 x64 clients Sernet Samba 4.10 Centos 6.4 x64 ISC named 9.9.4