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by joe pineapples

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OK, So I have installed Win2K onto my Server, and I want to configure the GPO's for the workstations.

I have found resources and instructions of how to configure this and I think I have done this right.

However, I cannot get the things to workon the workstations.

I have rummaged around TekRepublic and got some Ideas from previous questions, however I still cannot get them to work.

I understand that the permissions need to be given to the users, but where do I do this?

I am new to Win2K and would apreciate some help.

Cheers.

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by parbo

permission to users are giving through Computer Management. You get there by either right clicking on My computer or via Start/programs/Administrative Tools. next select computer mamagement and from there go to Local users and groups. There you can set the properties
Hope this helps

by joe pineapples

I have checked the permissions for the users and this has not solved the problem.

I have get the GPO's working on the server, however, they do not work on the workstations.

Any Ideas?

by briantruitt

I don't know what kind of policies you're exactly looking for, but maybe this will help. Go to start, run, and type mmc. This will bring you to the Microsoft Management Console. Go to Console, Add/Remove Snap-in's and then click Add in the next window. This will bring up all the pre-made snap-in's that Microsoft has to offer. You would probably want the Group Policy snap-in. Click the Add button and close out that window. Close out the Add/Remove snap-in window as well. From here you can make policies for both users and workstations. Save the policy you just made to the Admin Tools folder or your desktop so you can make changes as needed. Good Luck.

by joe pineapples

I have checked the permissions for the users and this has not solved the problem.

I have get the GPO's working on the server, however, they do not work on the workstations.

Any Ideas?

by oridjinn

1st - GPO's only work on Win2K Pro and Server
2nd - The GPO needs to be applied to the proper OU
3rd - If you are using the default GPO on the Domain, you need to enable Overwriting on the lower level GPO to overwrite setting from the Domain levelGPO.

Hope this helps

by joe pineapples

I have checked the permissions for the users and this has not solved the problem.

I have get the GPO's working on the server, however, they do not work on the workstations.

Any Ideas?

by oridjinn

A good question to ask you is... are the workstations win2K pro? If they are anything other than Win2k pro, the GPO will not work

by joe pineapples

Yes the workstations are win2K Pro.

I have checked everything, tring to work this thing out, but I still have the problem.

by the professor

The default permissions on a GPO are sufficient to be applied to the user or computer accounts where the GPO is applied. Unless you changed the permissions the GPOs should work fine. The permissions are located at the group policy edit screen.

Make sure the user and/or machine accounts reside in or below the OU in which you are applying the policy. Also be sure there are no policies lower in the AD structure that are overriding your policies. The group policy application is Local Machine, Domain, Site, OU then sub OU.

Finally, log off and back onto the domain to see the policy take effect. Otherwise you will have to wait up to an hour and a half for the policies to refresh to the workstations.

If they still don't work, keep restarting the workstations until they do - eventually they will. This happened to me once.

Good luck.

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