Win2K AD & Win 98

[Moonark]

I am running a Windows 2000 domain in native mode with AD. Group policies for windows XP and 2000 machines work great. Being that I run a Citrix / Termainal Server environment, the client workstations do not have to be the latest and greatest. I'd say about 1/2 of my clients are on Win98...why spend thousands of dollars just to have them run the remote desktop client...not really worth it...ok moving on... They log in, then access the Termainal Servers. I wanted to secure these 98 workstations as much as possible which the only way from what I know is to use poledit.exe from the 98 CD-Rom, then save the config.pol file to the \\DomainController\NETLOGON share. Once I did that I installed the group policy files to read this info onto the 98 workstations as seen in Microsoft 98 Resource Kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../98/all/reskit/en-us/part2/wrkc08.mspx

Everything seems to be ok at this point. The only policies that I will be enforcing are the computer policies and not user specific so I have not set up profiles for the users on the 98 machines. When I restart the 98 machines, they are supposed to pull the config.pol file. No computer policy gets applied. Is there something that I am doing wrong?

 

[dphantom]

Assuming you've done this:

You must first make sure that Grouppol.dll, which supports group policies, has been successfully installed on each client computer. For more information, see "Installing System Policy Editor" earlier in this chapter.

And this:
The computer does not seem to be picking up policies from a Config.pol file on the Windows NT domain.

? Make sure that there is a Config.pol file in the Netlogon share or folder on the primary domain controller on the Windows NT network.\\PDC\x$\WINNT\system32\Repl\Import\Scripts\Config.pol (where x = SystemDrive).

? Make sure that the client computer has its domain set properly in the properties for Client for Microsoft Networks, in the Network option in Control Panel.

? Make sure that the client computer is successfully logging on to that domain.

? Make sure that the client computer is configured for automatic policy downloading. You can set this by using the Remote Update policy, as described in "Setting Up for Manual Downloading of System Policies" earlier in this chapter. Windows 98 is configured for automatic policy downloading by default.

? Enable error messages on the client computer, and see if an error message is displayed.

Both from the Win98 resource kit.

Have you added the computers to the group you want the policy to apply since users have no policy applied? Otherwise, looks ok and I'd double-check everything was set per the resource kit ensuring all the adm files are properly located in the Sysvol folder.