samba - Dec 2013 - Group policy modelling wizard - can I help at all?

Hi All,

I?ve just been looking at getting Group Policy working - and as has already been
discussed on this list:

  http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126750502020784&w=2

I can confirm the same error against 4.1.2.

The error message in an English version of Windows 7 is:

?The domain controller you have selected does not have the RSoP planning mode
functionality available. Please select a different domain controller?.

Details: The RPC server is unavailable.


In answer to Matthieu Patou's question in the same thread (?is it very
useful??) - Yes.

To say ?it?s useful? would be an enormous understatement.

There are a number of rules regarding how policies are applied on a workstation
and once you?ve got more than a very small number of policies, it?s very common
to find they don?t work the way you?d expect them to. Group Policy Modelling
takes the policies and works out how they?ll be applied to a given user/PC,
producing a report that explains this.

It is possible to work without it but it?s a PITA and I suspect a lot of admins
would consider its absence to be a showstopper.


I have the lab environment I can test this out in, but alas I don?t have the
deep knowledge of AD (or for that matter Samba) necessary to implement this
feature.

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