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I am excited about the latest samba 3.0 release with AD support but have some questions. For this to be a viable alternative I really NEED GPO's or equivalent functionality. I am not thrilled about using LGPO's... I did see a thread on this list regarding GPO's but it seemed to be mostly directed toward working around this by using LGPO's and using a new package management system wpkg... Actually wpkg looks interesting, but aside from that I wanna be able to allow AD-account-admin the abili...

Hello, Is it possible to use Group Policies in Samba (or Samba + OpenLDAP etc.)? I want to replace Active Directory with Samba (and possibly some other tools like OpenLDAP), and Group Policy is a feature I need to have. Tomek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bar w Internecie wciaz bez cenzury! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1835

...administrator's desktop - optionally add gpedit.msc to mmc (add snapin ...) - change settings in GPOs to fit your needs or your company's security policy (especially admin templates) - export and import on other workstations or clone "master" workstation Please bear in mind that LGPOs affect ALL local users and Samba domain users, including the local administrator account. So be careful when changing the LGPOs since the user-specific policy settings are immediately effective! Administrators control can be retained by denying read access on the GroupPolicy folder, logging off an...

So only for old NT4 style PDC - BDC environment one needs poledit. While AD's (with virtual pdc role servers) can use the MMC.? We got a pure Samba AD environment and thus it should work. Be it that we might not have all mmc templates (not yet checked that). Thanks Viktor. -----Original message----- From: Viktor Trojanovic?<viktor at troja.ch> Sent: Wednesday 21st October 2020