Things that break group policy
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Group Policy
Group policy on windows controls windows settings for the domain.
It's used for the following
- Determing logon rights for pc's hooked into the shopbot and laser cutter
- setting registry keys for certains software licenses
- disabling power saveing
Basic Troubleshooting
If you notice something wrong, the following command will trigger a group policy update, and may display information about what went wrong.
gpupdate gpupdate /force gpupdate /force /sync
Time desync
If the computer's time is desynchronized from AD:
net time /domain /set /y
and try gpupdate again
Garbage in sysvol
I don't know if this actually fixed anything, but try running the following commands as root on the Domain Controller
samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --reset-well-known-acls --fix samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix
ACLs break after rsync
If samba-tool ntacls sysvolcheck
reveals a problem after every rsync of the sysvol, you may want to copy /var/lib/samba/private/idmap.ldb from the rsync host to the replicated Domain Controller.