JSI Tip 0477 - Are group policies ignored on your Windows 95 client?

Jerold Schulman

April 1, 1998

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if group policies are ignored, but all other policies work as expected:

1.Grouppol.dll is not in the WINDOWSSYSTEM directory.

2. The group in question is not a Global Group. (or group priority isn't set in correct order)

3. The policy file for a specific user exists which overwrites the group policy.

4. The registry has not been updated to include the grouppol.reg entries.

These entries can be added by "double-clicking" on the grouppol.reg file. If you don't have the grouppol.reg file, add them manually on the client:

- Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINENetworkLogon
Value name (STRING): PolicyHandler
Value data: GROUPPOL.DLL, ProcessPolicies

- Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesMSNP32NetworkProvider
Value name (STRING): GroupFcn
Value data: GROUPPOL.DLL, NTGetUserGroups

- Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesNWNP32NetworkProvider
Value name (STRING): GroupFcn
Value data: GROUPPOL.DLL, NWGetUserGroups

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