Disabling GPO's on Windows XP (for use with samba)

[Tyler Aviss]

We've been running into an odd issue at work since last summer when
various updates were applied (including updating from IE6 to IE7).
When a user logs into a workstation, sometimes he/she will end up with
missing proxy settings and no ability to hit internet sites outside of
the LAN.
The login script does properly import proxy settings through the
regular policies, however samba3 doesn't support GPO's (Group Policy
Objects).

It seems that there is a race condition between the machine's default
GPO (which has no proxy) and the login script. When certain conditions
exist, the GPO is applied after the login script is run, which blows
away the proxy settings with blank values.

There was a way to disable GPO's via a registry entry, but that
apparently doesn't work on production releases
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\DisableGPO


Does anyone know of another way to disable the GPO's so that XP will
play nicely with our samba3 servers and/or login scripts.

- TJA

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Tyler Aviss
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