Server-based group policy without active directory?
- From: gruvn <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jun 2005 20:37:04 -0400
Aloha folks,
:?:I hope this is the right place to post - I?m mostly interested in
group policy as it relates to Server 2003, but this is the only group
policy forum I saw...
Anyways, I?m in a bit of a pickle. I?m trying to figure out how to
enable roaming user profiles for our office where anyone can sit down
at any computer, log in, and receive access to the specific
information/network folders that they have been granted access to.
The policy information itself should be stored on our server (win
server 2003). Workstations are a mix of Windows XP professional and
Windows 2000.
The catch is that we do not have active directory, and I?m not to
install it.
Our campus IT guy claims this can be done, but almost everything I?ve
seen suggests otherwise. I had almost given up hope when I found that
you can do exactly this for Win NT...
Maybe some of you have seens this, but by adding a "NetworkPath" key
with the path to your ntconfig.pol file within
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update,
and changing UpdateMode from "1" to "2", you can force a
workstation to look to the provided path for user settings.
If this can be done for NT, I figure that something similar could
probably be done for 2000. I?d like to take advantage of the more
robust group policies of windows 2000+ rather then dusing NT... also,
the method above seems to require that every single user must have a
user profile on every single machine, which is not ideal...
I have administrative access to all workstations as well as the server
and have no problem sitting down at each workstation to edit the
registry similar to what I described above, but I would rather not
have to manage a set of policies for each individual workstation - one
for the whole network would be ideal.
In one sentence: How can I set up a policy on our win 2003 server
(that takes advantage of groups) to deploy different content to any
network workstation in the office depending on who is logged in
without active directory?
Thanks for reading!
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