We are using exactly the same setup in our environment. We have GPO's applied to machines where the MSI-files are located on a filer.

What you need to be aware of: - the filer needs to have Kerberos enabled - if it is a ntfs qtree the machine accounts need to have read access - probably "Domain Computers":Read - the NetApp needs to have a valid user mapping from the Windows machine account to a valid Unix id.

We have the default Unix user set to: wafl.default_unix_user nobody

and have a entry for nobody in /etc/passwd nobody:*:65534:65534:Guest for NT:/root:/bin/sh

I don't believe that we have configured anything else to get the software installation working - but I could be wrong - that was some years ago...

If it doesn't work set the options cifs.trace_login to on and watch the console for mapping errors.

Carsten

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Steve Evans Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:48 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Group Policy Software Installations

Sorry, I'm applying the GPO to workstations to install certain software. The software package (the msi) is being housed on the Filer. When you assign the software to a machine it tries to connect with the machine credentials and fails.

Steve Evans SDSU Foundation

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From: SKIP HOFMANN [mailto:SKIP.HOFMANN@ttisg.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:06 AM To: Steve Evans; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Group Policy Software Installations

What kind of GPO would you want to assign to a filer? Is the filer part of the domain?

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From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans@foundation.sdsu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:21 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Group Policy Software Installations

Where trying to deploy a piece of software via Group Policy. If we assign it to the user it works fine, but if we assign it to the machine it can't find the source on the Filer. If we move the installation package to a Win2k3 machine we can assign it to the machine. Anyone know how to fix this with Filers?

Steve Evans

SDSU Foundation