What exactly are you trying to accomplish/lockdown for that user? you may be able to get some benefit from GPO using the computer side of the house and you may also be able to restrict some settings using mandatory user profiles. What is the business need for a local account opposed to a single domain account- is it a problem with an application that can only work with local accounts? Since many of the user group policy settings get applied in the registry- you may be able to get the GPO functionality to get imported with a registry import script that runs when the user logs on._ just a thought. Omar Droubi omar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 650-726-0300 ________________________________________ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Cross [mrforklift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 02:30 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Applying GPO to a Local User Account I have the following environment: Windows 2003 Forest Windows XP SP3 I have created a GPO to apply to a specific group in the domain and removed Authenticated Users from the security filter. The policy works perfectly for any situation involving a domain account logging into the XP client; however, only the Computer side of the GPO applies when logging in with client-local account. There is a business need for the one local account to exist on the client and have the same lockdowns applied. Is there a way to apply the GPO to a local account? -- Matt Cross, MCSE: Messaging mailto:mrforklift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************