“VBScript would be something a Samba admin would know of” — a login script doesn’t have to be a VBScript, could be CMD as well, or just an EXE. WSH is a general-purpose scripting environment unrelated to samba. Professional Windows system engineers use VBScript to automate their tasks, or at least they did before Win7 took off, with the PowerShell built-in.<p>“Group policy is distributed over SMB” — SMB indeed takes part in the distribution, however LDAP protocol plays key role here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;canberrapfe&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;where-are-site-linked-group-policy-objects-stored-and-why-should-you-care.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;canberrapfe&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;where...</a> Also it’s less important how they distributed or linked, it’s more important what they are — and AFAIK there’s no *nix equivalent.