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by ins413

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I have set up a W2K domain with NTWS4.0 clients. Problem is that clients are not taking domain policy. I have set everything up according to spec (i am about 99% sure)as far as W2K goes, and W2K clients are fine, but NT clients just don't want to cooperate. I have SP6a installed and tried adding users to pre-win 2000 compat group. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Step by step would be nice, but a general idea should suffice. Thanx in advance.

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by bentgellerich

Unfortunatly only Windows 2000 machines can participate in group policy. You're W2K clients are working fine, as they are supposed to, but NT 4.0 will not work. Your only option is to lock them down the old NT 4.o way using system policies or upgrade all machines t W2K.

by kirill lozovatsky

The Windows 2000 Group Policy snap-in does not provide client support for Windows NT 4.0 clients and computers running Windows 95 and Windows 98. Support for Windows NT 4.0 clients is provided by fully supporting the Windows NT 4.0 style of administrative templates (.adm files) and by providing the Windows NT 4.0 System Policy Editor (Poledit.exe) files. However, the System Policy Editor user interface is not exposed in the Windows 2000 user interface.

You can install the System Policy Editor tool, Poledit.exe, in Windows 2000 Professional by using the Windows 2000 Server's Windows 2000 Administrative Tools package. Windows 2000 Server includes a component called Windows 2000 Administration Tools (Adminpak.msi), a Windows Installer package (.msi file) that contains all the files and information required to install the Windows 2000 Server Administrative tools.

by ins413

Let me change this up a bit. What about if I set computer policies for the domain. WIll NT take them? What do I have to do to make this work in a W2K domain. I am sure that this is possible and that I do not have to go to everyones pc's and set this manually. How do I get this policy repllicated to the machines?

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