samba - Feb 2004 - Samba & Group Policy environment

Excuse the pedestrian question but is anyone using Samba to push Group Policies 
in a large 1500 user environment?

We are contemplating using Samba on Apple?s OSX server to manage our Wintel 
desktops through the pushing of Group Policies at our school district. At 
present we are using Zenworks to accomplish this and we have a somewhat stable 
solution. We would like to duplicate this with Samba.

Apple has not been supportive on this front and we are looking for some group / 
organization that has experience with this. I'm not looking for specific
help,
just someone that has done this and can verify that we moving in the correct 
direction.

Thank you,
Reggie Ryan
ryan@ncook.k12.il.us

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 04:06, Reggie Ryan wrote:
> Excuse the pedestrian question but is anyone using Samba to push Group
Policies
> in a large 1500 user environment?
Samba does not support Group policies in the Active Directory sense.  We
only support NT4 system policies, because the clients think we are NT4. 

However, this can work quite well, as long as you understand the
implications.

Andrew Bartlett

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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
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