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Policy Problem - Policy won't work

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by baird.jason 1 view

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We recently had a PDC (in Windows NT 4) crash and so we promoted the BDC to PDC and then proceeded to rebuild the former PDC. Once we had it rebuilt we promoted the BDC to PDC and everything appeared just fine. We then recreated the system policies that we previously in effect and thought nothing more of it. However, we cannot get the policies to take effect. We put the ntconfig.pol in the Netlogon directory and we even (using poledit.exe) set it to manually update from the Netlogon directory. Anyone ever experience this? Any ideas?

Jason Baird

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by shmaltz

Are the clients WinNT? or 9x?
Is the policy being created on a the same platform as the clients? or on a different platform? (9x < - > 9x NT < - > NT? or 9x< - > NT?)?
Policies for Windows 9x clients has to be created on a Win9x machine (using thepolicy editor that's included on the Windows 98 CD ROM in the windows 98 Resource Kit subfolder), and they have to be saved on the server with the name CONFIG.POL in the NETLOGON direcotry on all Domain Controllers.
Ploicies for WinNT/2K has to be created on WinNT/2K, usning the version that comes with WinNT/2K, and saved on all Domain Controllers NETLOGON directory with the name NTCONFIG.POL.
You also have to make srue that you loaded the right tamplates.
Also, How do you know that the policies don't take effect? Since Windows will not remove a previous policy just by not reapplying it.

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