Creating System Policy Files

To create a system policy file on Windows NT, use the System Policy Editor on a computer running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server. The System Policy Editor is available only on Windows NT server, but you can copy the editor from a Windows NT Server to a workstation and then run the editor on the workstation.

The system policy entries you set are stored in a binary file with the .POL extension. You should save this file with the name ntconfig.POL. The Windows NT Workstation software reads and interprets the ntconfig.POL policy file by overriding any conflicting information in that workstation's Registry.

To create a system policy file on Windows 95, use the Windows 95 System Policy Editor. The system policy entries you set are stored in a binary file with the .POL extension. You should save this file with the name config.POL on a server running the pcnfsd daemon. When the user logs in, Windows 95 overwrites the default USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT settings in the Registry with the policy settings in the config.POL file.

To apply system policies to a network that uses both Windows 95 and Windows NT, run the System Policy Editor once from each platform to produce two different system policy files.