Right, so that is why you need to ensure that a) the Authenticated User group does not have Read and Apply Group Policy permissions on that GPO, because it also includes all computers and b) that you have added a security group to the GPO that includes the 5 computers and granted that group Read and Apply Group Policy. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:30 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only I am setting the policy on a Computer OU, and only have it apply to 5 machines, regardless of who logs into them, but only 5 specified machines, not any of the 3000 in the same OU. _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:14 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only It depends upon your goal. In either case, if you've got a per-user admin. Template policy in the loopback GPO, that one will take precedence over the user's "normal" user policy settings. From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:12 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Thought that is what I did but, what type of loopback, merge or replace. _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:05 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Ok. You have a single GPO that both enables loopback on the computer side, and removes the map network drive option on the user side. Let's say you want that to apply to 5 computers that all users logon to. Let's say those 5 computers are part of the "Special Computers" Group. On the permissions for the GPO, you would first remove the Authenticated Users permission, then you would add Special Computers with read and apply group policy, and Domain Users with read and apply group policy. If you wanted to have the user policy only apply to a subset of users that logon to one of those 5 machines, then you would, instead of using Domain Users on that GPO, use a group that includes those subset of users. From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:58 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Sorry, thought you were referring to remove the Map Network drive function was only in Computer Configuration. Are you saying create another GPO to set loopback? I was setting loopbackmto Merge within the same policy as my Map Network Drive removal setting and it does not work. If I add Domain Users to Read and Apply, and add the machines I want to apply it to, it applies to all machines I log in to. What am I missing? _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:47 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Maybe we are talking about different things. To enable loopback, there is only one place you can do that, under Computer Configuration\Admin Templates\System\Group Policy\User Group Policy Loopback Processing mode From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:40 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only I only found that option under User Configuration, where under Computer is it? _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:28 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only The GPO that enables the loopback setting needs to be linked to computers because it's a Computer Configuration option. That will enable loopback on those computers. If you on that same GPO, you also set the user configuration options you want, then that GPO has to be permissioned such that the users you want to read it, can. From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:23 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Sorry I was a little confused on that. I added Domain Users to the policy to Read and Apply, although I only want this to apply to 5 machines. What loopback option are you saying to choose and does it matter what OU I link this on, Users or Computers? _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:08 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Yes. Its just a matter of using your security filters correctly. Your loopback GPO needs to grant only the computers and users who you want to process this policy, the read an apply gp rights, and no others. From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:04 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only Darren thanks for the response, this GPO is to prevent users from mapping drives. What I need to configure is to prevent any user that logs on to a group of 5 machines [except 1 or two admins] from right-clicknig on My Computer - Map Network Drive. Just 5 machines, not the entrie Domain and I do NOT want to create a seperate OU for this. Can this be done? Thanks, Craig _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:49 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Apply GPO to Computers Only So you have a GPO that contains some logon script and sets loopback? I suspect the problem is that you've removed authenticated users, added the computer accounts, which is fine, but no users can read the user portion of the loopback GPO when they logon. You might try granting Read and Apply GP to the "Domain Users" group. That allows users to read the GPO but not other computers. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buonora, Craig (GE, Research, consultant) Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:59 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Apply GPO to Computers Only I had another issue come up where I need to apply a User configuration item [remove map network drive] to about 6 computers in my Domain. I created the GPO, remove the Authenticated Users element from the delegation - Advance tab, and added my machine names, and click Read and apply for the permissions to each. I also included Loopback Processing to Merge with this, I used merge and replace. I cannot get this policy to apply. This needs to be set on 6 machines that are used by the public and I do not want to do this locally as I would like to exclude eventually some NT accounts from the policy so they can log on and do some admin functionality that involves mapping drives. Thank again in advance for the help. Craig M. 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