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by compserv

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I am logging my XP pro computer on to a w2k domain controller. I logon ok, but my group policies are not being applied. If I logon at the server with the user that the policies are applied to, they work fine.

Windows 98 required me to change my security from shared level to user level for this to happen. Is XP the same, how do I change to user level security.

What do I need to do to get my group policies to be applied to my XP pro computer.

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by jose_12650

What are these policies? Account/password policies should be implemented at the domain level, while others can be implented at the particular OU. You speak of a Server where the policies have been configured. Try installing implementing the policy at the Domain Controller.

by cg it

When a part of a domain with a domain controller, The default is Domain group policies [the server] takes prescedence over local computer group policies [the XP computer]. If you want a user level group policy to be applied for a particular user, you can create it in Active Directory and apply that policy to that user alone [or you can create an Organizational Unit [OU] [using Active Directory], assign one user or a group of users to it, then create group policies for that OU. When users of that OU log on, the specified group policy will be applied.

by cg it

if you create a policy on the XP computer locally and want that policy to be applied for users using that XP computer on a domain, then you have to change the inheritence security settings on the XP computer to not inherit parent group policy [or override parent security ] and apply local security policy for users.

by cg it

All this "assumes" that both the domain controller and XP computer are using NTFS file system [which W98 doesn not have that capability which is why you had to change share to user level on the W98 machine].

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