Re: Group policy defaults if the server is down
From: Luke (lbowes|removethis|_at_palitra-art.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:04:32 -0700
Hi Jeffrey,
When the clients shut down they would not loose the cached
domain policy. It is cached to the hard drive. If the clients were
powered up without the win03 server then they would simply used the
latest cached domain policy.
Luke.
Jeffrey Mount wrote:
> Luke,
>
> It makes great sense. I do have a follow-up: is the local cache
> cleared when the XP box is shut down? We usually turn off all our
> PC's in the evening. Of course, the Win 2003 server would run 24x7.
> However, if for some reason it went down and an XP box hadn't been
> powered up, what group policy would the XP use then?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeffrey
>
> "Luke" wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeffrey,
> > If your win 2003 server went down it should not prevent
> > the clients from being able to access the SCO unix server. However
> > you may in order to guarentee communication (to the SCO unix server
> > without the win 03 server) you may have to add the IP address of
> > the UNIX server to the clients hosts file to ensure that they could
> > resolve the IP address of the UNIX server without needing the DNS
> > on the win 2003 server. If the server was down then the clients
> > would use the cached group policy because when the server is a up a
> > local copy would be stored of the domain GP on all of the clients.
> > Therefore if the clients could not access the win 2003 server's GP
> > then the clients would simply use the latest version cached on the
> > local client. Hope this helps, Luke.
> >
> > Jeffrey Mount wrote:
> >
> > > I will soon have 11-12 Win XP computers that run a specialized
> > > point-of-sale (POS) app for my restaurant and catering company.
> > > The server itself is a SCO Unix Openserver so the XP PC's will
> > > not need to communicate with one another---only the POS server.
> > >
> > > I'm considering also adding a Win 2003 server to the mix,
> > > primarily to receive the benefits that are offered in the
> > > managment of the XP boxes via the Group Policy Management
> > > Console. However, uptime is important and I don't want my XP
> > > boxes dependent on the Win 2003 server to communicate with Unix
> > > server.
> > >
> > > What happens if the Win 2003 server is down? Will the XP boxes
> > > still operate and allow my staff to run the POS apps? If so,
> > > what's happens in terms of the restrictions available via the
> > > GPMC? Do the individual XP PC's use their local machine/user
> > > policies?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeffrey Mount
> >
> >
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