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Hi, I created a OU called Customer Service. In Customer Services OU, I have a user who I want to prevent from changing screen savers.
I did a group policy on the Customer Service OU in the user settings to hide screen saver.
I force refresh the gpo and also to test I reboot the server and the client. When the client (XP Pro) boots up, that user still is able to change screen saver.
Is there a step I'm missing?Thanks for your input.
sounds right to me...
just an obvious thought though...have you checked that the policy has not somehow changed itself when you restarted the server? lol - I have had stranger things happen to me!...If It's not broken, Don't fix it!
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Thanks for your input. Okay, I think I know what the problem may be but can someone confirmed it.
We don't have a DNS and DNS is not configure on this windows 2000 server. We are using host files.
Does GPO required an active DNS?
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I am not 100% sure...so I wouldn't reley on my answer..but in my experiance I have certinatly never GPO seen it without DNS.
If It's not broken, Don't fix it!
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I don't understand how are your server-client topology working but you can deny this settings by creating a registry key and put it on the startup menu on every pc, and the keys to disable this settings are:
For <user>\Control Panel\Display:
Key: MyComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\SystemNoDispAppearancePage - Restrict Display (Hide Appearance Tab)
NoDispBackgroundPage - Hide Background Tab
NoDispCPL - Deny Access to display icon
NoDispScrSavPage - Hide Screen Saver tab
NoDispSettingsPage - Hide Settings tab
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Domain policies take precedence over local policies. Are you changing this setting on the domain or on the local machine?
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Hmm. Evidently something else is overriding that then. Perhaps another parent domain? What's your network like?
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Not too experienced in this field but in basic terms you need to find what's over-riding the policy.
->Could be a bad install
->Could be the switch interfering
->Could be a compatibility problem between XP Pro and 2K server(?)
Be sure there are sufficient privelages on the area needing altered and that the client machine has lowered privelages so an override can't (or shouldn't) take place.
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Check your group policy delegations and make sure it's effective for the particular group or account that you want to push the policy down to.
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