[plug] Samba domain issues

[Mark Nold]

Chris,

(disclaimer i know little about Poledit, and i cant answer your real
question)

Out of interest, why do you need policies for a small (im assuming) network?
I have found policies in the past to be painful. Now i tend to keep to
attitude that the windows client machine can be foobar'd (policies or no) at
any time and as long as you data is always on the network you are fine.

If it really is a small network, do you really need policies to stop people
changing things?

But of course if you have a large no of clients, or always changing users or
over curious users policies may be the way to go.

(Just thinking about it i should set up policies on my Dad's PC... man does
that guy like to change things...)

mn





-----Original Message-----
From: deicidal at iinet.net.au [mailto:deicidal at iinet.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:27 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Samba domain issues


Im looking into setting up Samba to be a domain controller for my windoze
boxen and ive read bits and pieces about using poledit (win admin) to
create the policies and then store them on the linux machine. The policies
are then mapped to a drive on login so they can be used by the windows
machines.  My question is this: Thats all fine and dandy for windows9x/NT
but what  about windowsXP pro? Will a windowsXP pro machine function fine on
a  network that is run by a (simulated)NT controller? Will the policies be
different because the OS is so different? Will i have to use a policy
editing program on windowsXP and then use that policy instead of the
poledit ones?  Any help is appreciated.  .Chris