Active Directory on a Linux box with Samba - - group policy central store?
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I've been messing around with the home lab and have successfully created an Active Directory domain controller on Linux Ubuntu Server. Has anyone configured a Group Policy Central Store and had it successfully work with RSAT on a Windows client? I've created the PolicyDefinitions folder on my DC sysvol\Policies folder, but when I open up a policy and begin editing it, I get this, one after another...one for each admx file in the PolicyDefinitions folder:
'An appropriate resource file could not be found for file \domain.blah\SysVol\domain.blah\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\blah.admx (error = 2): The system cannot find the file specified.'
Seems like it should be a simple thing - create the language-specific folder ('en-US') and drop the adml files in, but for some reason, something ain't happy...
Anyone have any experience with this?
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@Rob-Dunn said:
An appropriate resource file could not be found for file
Please verify this link.I don't know the issue but i tried my level
https://tigermatt.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/where-do-i-put-my-admx-files/
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@Lakshmana said:
@Rob-Dunn said:
An appropriate resource file could not be found for file
Please verify this link.I don't know the issue but i tried my level
https://tigermatt.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/where-do-i-put-my-admx-files/
What do you mean? I can access the link from here.
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Thanks Lakshmana! I know where to put the files, it's just that RSAT doesn't realize that they're there or something else is going on. The big variable here is that I'm running all of this against Linux and not a proper Windows DC.
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Did you copy out all the ADMX files from a Windows Server?
Also Linux is picky about file cases... so make sure the en-US is actually en-US and not en-us, etc.
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I did, but remember, since this is a Samba share, case-sensitivity doesn't (or shouldn't) apply. I'll change it tonight though to be sure.
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@Rob-Dunn said:
I did, but remember, since this is a Samba share, case-sensitivity doesn't (or shouldn't) apply. I'll change it tonight though to be sure.
Does being a share change sensitivity? Since the filesystem remains sensitive it should still apply. SMB is only the sharing, not the file system.
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I think what I should have implied was - to Windows should it not matter, or...?
If RSAT is pulling data from a Samba share, shouldn't Windows ignore case?
EDIT: After reading this I suppose this might depend on the share settings itself on the Samba side?
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Yes, I think that RSAT might actually care as if it does the wrong thing it won't see the files.
